26/27 What a number of people you're going to know, my dear. But, your husband isn't to take you away from _all_ your old friends." "He isn't taking me anywhere. I shall stay," said Anne proudly, "exactly where I was before." She was determined that her old friends should never know to what a sorrowful place she had been taken. "Fanny," said she, "I want you to know him." "I mean to," said Mrs.Eliott hurriedly. "Well," said she, "I hope you're free for the fifteenth ?" "The fifteenth ?" "Yes, or any other evening. |