But, mamma, I cannot understand how Maurice can be so long away from home.

I should think he must have quantities of things to attend to; and she told me Sir John was always busy, though his estate is not so large as Hunsdon.

Only think, mamma, of Maurice, our Maurice, having more than ten thousand a year!" "Well, dear, since we have come to talking of our neighbour's fortunes, I think we had better go to bed." "Oh! yes; how thoughtless I am, keeping you up so.

And I must be early to-morrow, for Lady Dighton is coming to see you, and Maurice wants me to go with him for a walk first.

Not to see anything, but just for a walk." Mrs.Costello lay down that night with a great feeling of content with regard to her daughter's future.
"Certainly," she thought, "Maurice may be satisfied with the affection she has for him; if it is not just the kind of love he wishes for, that is only because it has never entered her mind that he could be anything but a brother to her.