If you will name the day we will send the carriage for you at Matching Station, and I dare say I can manage to come myself.
Yours affectionately, G.PALLISER.
P.S.I know what will be in your mind.

You will say, why did not she come to me in London?
She knew the way to Queen Anne Street well enough.

Dear Alice, don't say that.
Believe me, I had much to do and think of in London.

And if I was wrong, yet you will forgive me.

Mr Palliser says I am to give you his love,--as being a cousin,--and say that you must come! This letter was certainly better than the other, but Alice, on reading it, came to a resolve that she would not accept the invitation.