We said good-by, and parted, with grievous misgivings on my side, which proved (thank God!) to have been quite needless.

Kitty and her mother went to the station, and Mrs.Presty and I hired a carriage, and drove away to the head of the lake, to catch the train to London.

Do you know, Randal, I have altered my opinion of Mrs.Presty ?" Randal smiled.

"You too have found something in that old woman," he said, "which doesn't appear on the surface." "The occasion seems to bring that something out," the lawyer remarked.
"When I proposed the separation, and mentioned my reasons, I expected to find some difficulty in persuading Mrs.Presty to give up the adventurous journey with her daughter and her grandchild.

I reminded her that she had friends in London who would receive her, and got snubbed for taking the liberty.