But he will be quite alone." "More alone than when you first left him?
I do not quite understand." "Yes; some very near neighbours--old friends of his and my mother's--are going to leave Cacouna.

I had no reason to be uneasy about him while they were there.

Do you think my grandfather could be persuaded to spare me for six weeks ?" "Not willingly, I think.

Could not my uncle come home without your going ?" Maurice felt as if he were caught in his own trap, but he recollected himself in a moment.
"There would be many things to do," he said.

"Affairs to settle, the farm to sell or let, and the household, small as it is, to break up." Lady Dighton laughed outright.
"And you imagine that you could do all that, and carry your father off besides, in the space of a fortnight, which is the very utmost you could possibly have out of your six weeks! Really, Maurice, I gave you credit for more reasonableness." "I have no doubt I could do it," he said, a little vexed, "and of course I should try to get back as quickly as possible." "Well, let me see if I cannot suggest something a little more practicable.