I want to come out and talk to you, for grandpapa takes up all my attention when I am with him." They began walking slowly up and down under the stone colonnade, which had been added as a decoration to the front of the dark red brick house, and Lady Dighton went on talking.
"I was so glad when I heard you were here.

Ever since poor papa's death I have felt quite uncomfortable about grandpapa.

I came over to see him as often as I could, but, of course, I had to think of Sir John." "And Dighton is a good way from here ?" Maurice said.

He had not been quite sure whether his cousin would not regard him as an interloper, coming between her and her inheritance; and he was still sufficiently in the dark, to feel the subject an awkward one.
"Only six miles, fortunately.

I say fortunately, _now_, because I hope we are going to be very good friends, but till I saw you, I was not sure whether it was fortunate.