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"Yes," said Mrs Melbury She expressed her concern that her husband

had hired a carriage all the way from Shottsford "What it will cost!"

she said

"I don't care what it costs!" he exclaiet her home Why she went away I can't think! She acts in a way

that is not at all likely to mend matters as far as I can see" (Grace

had not told her father of her intervieith Mrs Charmond, and the

disclosure that had been whispered in her startled ear) "Since Edgar

is coot home, to

ask o out; where

is he gone?"

Mrs Melbury did not know positively; but she told her husband that

there was not much doubt about the place of his first visit after an

absence She had, in fact, seen Fitzpiers take the direction of the

Manor House

Melbury said noto him that just at this

moment, when there was every reason for Fitzpiers to stay indoors, or

at any rate to ride along the Shottsford road to oing elsewhere The oldhardly unsaddled as yet, he

told Upjohn to retighten the girths, when he again eon