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Without Mr Brooke's advice, Lydgate had deter to

Dorothea She had not been present while her uncle was throwing out

his pleasant suggestions as to the ht

be enlivened, but she was usually by her husband's side, and the

unaffected signs of intense anxiety in her face and voice about

whatever touched his ate was

inclined to watch He said to hi her the truth about her husband's probable future, but he

certainly thought also that it would be interesting to talk

confidentially with her A ical

observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too

easily tempted into ht Lydgate had often been satirical on this gratuitous

prediction, and he uarded

He asked for Mrs Casaubon, but being told that she was out walking, he

was going ahen Dorothea and Celia appeared, both glowing froed to speak with

her alone, Dorothea opened the library door which happened to be the

nearest, thinking of nothing at the ht have to

say about Mr Casaubon It was the first time she had entered this

room since her husband had been taken ill, and the servant had chosen