Did you spend the whole hour talking about them ?" "Mamma! Why that was only the beginning." "What was the rest, then?
or some of it, at least ?" "She told me how good Maurice was to his grandfather, and how fond Mr.
Beresford grew of him.

Do you know that Maurice was just going to try to get away to Canada at the very time Mr.Beresford had his last attack?
Lady Dighton says he was excessively anxious to go, and yet he never showed the least impatience or disappointment when he found he could not be spared." "He must have felt that he was bound to his grandfather." "He nursed him just like a woman, Lady Dighton says, and one could fancy it.

Could not you, mamma ?" "I don't find it difficult to believe anything good of Maurice." "Oh! and then she told me about Hunsdon.

She was born there, and lived there till she was married.

She told me all about why Mr.Beresford left it to Maurice, and not to her.