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Lydgate's advice was all the easier for Sir James to follohen he

found that Celia had already told Dorothea the unpleasant fact about

the will There was no help for it now--no reason for any further

delay in the execution of necessary business And the next day Sir

James complied at once with her request that he would drive her to

Lowick

"I have no wish to stay there at present," said Dorothea; "I could

hardly bear it I am much happier at Freshitt with Celia I shall be

able to think better about what should be done at Lowick by looking at

it froe a little

while withthe

people in the village"

"Not yet, I think Your uncle is having political cos," said Sir Jae chiefly as a haunt of young Ladislaw's

But no word passed between him and Dorothea about the objectionable

part of the will; indeed, both of them felt that the mention of it

between them would be ireeable subjects; and the one thing that Dorothea would have

chosen to say, if she had spoken on the matter at all, was forbidden to

her at present because it seemed to be a further exposure of her

husband's injustice Yet she did wish that Sir James could knohat

had passed between her and her husband about Will Ladislaw's ht, be apparent to hie indelicate proviso had