But I could not bear that you should not know the real reason why I neither came to you nor sent for you after we went to London.

You'll come to me now; won't you, dear ?" "Yes;--and you'll come to me," said Alice, making in her mind a sort of bargain that she was not to be received into Mr Palliser's house after the fashion in which Lady Midlothian had proposed to receive her.

But it struck her at once that this was unworthy of her, and ungenerous.

"But I'll come to you," she added, "whether you come to me or not." "I will go to you," said Lady Glencora, "of course,--why shouldn't I?
But you know what I mean.

We shall have dinners and parties and lots of people." "And we shall have none," said Alice, smiling.
"And therefore there is so much more excuse for your coming to me;--or rather I mean so much more reason, for I don't want excuses.
Well, dear, I'm so glad I've told you.