CHAPTER XIV.
A Lover's Perseverance Ferdinand Lopez learned immediately through Mrs.Roby that the early departure for Herefordshire had been fixed.

"I should go to him and speak to him very plainly," said Mrs.Roby.

"He can't bite you." "I'm not in the least afraid of his biting me." "You can talk so well! I should tell him everything, especially about money,--which I'm sure is all right." "Yes,--that is all right," said Lopez, smiling.
"And about your people." "Which I've no doubt you think is all wrong." "I don't know anything about it," said Mrs.Roby, "and I don't much care.

He has old-world notions.

At any rate you should say something, so that he should not be able to complain to her that you had kept him in the dark.