21/26 What's the good of any such resolution now ?" "And you have met him ?" "Yes; he--Mr Palliser--knew all about it. When he talked of taking me to the house, I whispered to him that I thought Burgo would be there." "Do not call him by his Christian name," said Alice, almost with a shudder. He said it didn't signify, and that I had better learn to bear it. Bear it, indeed! If I am to meet him, and speak to him, and look at him, surely I may mention his name." And then she paused for an answer. "May I not ?" "What am I to say ?" exclaimed Alice. |