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'I don't like your going to Ply to St Launce's on horseback Why not drive, and take the man?'

'It is not nice to be so overlooked' Worm's company would not seriously have interfered with her plans, but it was her huo?' said her father

She only answered, 'Soon'

'I will consider,' he said

Only a few days elapsed before she asked again A letter had reached her from Stephen It had been tie on which he could meet her at Plyh, and returned in unusual buoyancy of spirit It was a good opportunity; and since the disenerally in a ht steer clear of large ones connected with that outcast lover of hers

'Next Thursday week I a from home in a different direction,' said her father 'In fact, I shall leave hoht choose the same day, for they wish to take up the carpets, or so, I think As I said, I don't like you to be seen in a town on horseback alone; but go if you will'

Thursday week Her father had na as the earliest on which it would be of any use to meet her; that was, about fifteen days from the day on which he had left Endelstow Fifteen days--that frag individuality froe law

She involuntarily looked at her father so strangely, that on beco conscious of the look she paled with embarrass of?

There seemed to be a special facility offered her by a power external to herself in the circuht previous to her wished-for day Her father seldo journeys; seldo a remote Visitation Well, she would not inquire too curiously into the reason of the opportunity, nor did he, as would have been natural, proceed to explain it of his own accord In matters of fact there had hitherto been no reserve between theh they were not usually confidential in its full sense But the divergence of their eement which just at present went even to the extent of reticence on the most ordinary household topics