Aunt--like many other elderly people--likes to talk of such things; but when it comes to putting them into actual execution, she rather falls off.

Such being the case, I think you and I had better adhere to our first plan of going somewhere together independently of other people.

I have got leave to accompany you for a week--at the utmost a fortnight--but no more.
Where do you wish to go?
Burlington, I should think, from what M.
says, would be as eligible a place as any.

When do you set off?
Arrange all these things according to your convenience; I shall start no objections.

The idea of seeing the sea--of being near it--watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noon-day--in calm, perhaps in storm--fills and satisfies my mind.