I reserve to myself the option of paying their travelling expenses,--disliking gadding women, on the one hand; on the other, not wishing by too long absence from the family home to weaken natural ties.
'If my proposal pleases you and your daughter--or rather, if it pleases you, for I trust your daughter has been too well brought up to have a will in opposition to yours--let me know, dear cousin Margaret Dawson, and I will make arrangements for meeting the young gentlewoman at Cavistock, which is the nearest point to which the coach will bring her.' My mother dropped the letter, and sat silent.
"I shall not know what to do without you, Margaret." A moment before, like a young untried girl as I was, I had been pleased at the notion of seeing a new place, and leading a new life.

But now,--my mother's look of sorrow, and the children's cry of remonstrance: "Mother; I won't go," I said.
"Nay! but you had better," replied she, shaking her head.

"Lady Ludlow has much power.

She can help your brothers.

It will not do to slight her offer." So we accepted it, after much consultation.