12/20 "And yet he has been down there." I made no reply, and Freda, with a sigh, turned away. Freda's arrival at Bath had been very hard on him, it was almost more than he could endure. Sir Richard, blind as a bat, of course, to anything below the surface, made a point of seeing something of Lawrence's brother. And on the day of my arrival Derrick and I had hardly set out for a walk, when we ran across the old man. He was going with his daughter to see over Beckford's Tower, and invited us to accompany him. |