I will go and tell Charles, and get ready directly.

You can send for us, you know, at a moment's notice, if anything is the matter; but I dare say there will be nothing to alarm you.

I should not go, you may be sure, if I did not feel quite at ease about my dear child." The next moment she was tapping at her husband's dressing-room door, and as Anne followed her up stairs, she was in time for the whole conversation, which began with Mary's saying, in a tone of great exultation-- "I mean to go with you, Charles, for I am of no more use at home than you are.

If I were to shut myself up for ever with the child, I should not be able to persuade him to do anything he did not like.

Anne will stay; Anne undertakes to stay at home and take care of him.