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Dorothea was in fact thinking that it was desirable for Celia to know

of the e in Mr Casaubon's position since he had last

been in the house: it did not seenorance of

ould necessarily affect her attitude towards hi her Dorothea accused herself of

some meanness in this timidity: it was always odious to her to have any

small fears or contrivances about her actions, but at this ht not dread the

corrosiveness of Celia's pretty carnally minded prose Her reverie was

broken, and the difficulty of decision banished, by Celia's s in its usual tone, of a re to dine besides Mr Casaubon?"

"Not that I know of"

"I hope there is some one else Then I shall not hear him eat his soup

so"

"What is there re?"

"Really, Dodo, can't you hear how he scrapes his spoon? And he always

blinks before he speaks I don't knohether Locke blinked, but I'm

sure I am sorry for those who sat opposite to hiravity, "pray don't make any

more observations of that kind"

"Why not? They are quite true," returned Celia, who had her reasons

for persevering, though she was beginning to be a little afraid