They had actually turned round and begun to walk towards home before he had found a reason for not doing it.
"Lucia," he said abruptly, after one of the pauses which had been growing more and more frequent, "don't you wish to go over to England ?" "Of course I do," she answered with some surprise; "I wish we _could_ go.

You know I always used to wish it." "Why don't you try now you are so near ?" "Surely, Maurice, you know mamma cannot go." "I remember hearing something about your grandfather having wished her not to do so.

Forgive me if it is a painful subject; but do not you see that things are quite changed now ?" "Do you think she could, then?
But I _don't_ see." "Her father, I suppose, wished to avoid the chance of her marriage being gossipped about.

His idea of her going back to England was naturally that she would go among her own relations and old acquaintance who knew the story.

Now, I believe that she might go to any other part of the island--say Norfolk, for instance--and obey his wishes just as much as by staying in Paris." "To Norfolk?
Why, then, we should be near you?
Oh! do try to persuade her." "I must have you decidedly on my side then.