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Even in the hour of Melbury's greatest assurance Winterborne had

harbored a suspicion that no la or old, could undo Grace's

h he was not

sufficiently sure of what ht have been enacted to destroy by his oords her pleasing idea that ato be sufficient But he had never suspected the

sad fact that the position was irreed in too much fluster

for a rave he was "I a through her tears

"Giles, if you had only shown half the boldness before I married that

you sho, you would have carried me off for your own first instead

of second If we do ing you a little, but my father is SO impatient, you know, as

his years and infirmities increase, that he ish to see us a

little advanced when he comes That is my only excuse"

To Winterborne all this was sadder than it eet How could she so

trust her father's conjectures? He did not kno to tell her the

truth and shame himself And yet he felt that it an, al that it

can all be carried out while we stay here at Hintock I am not sure

but that people may have to appear in a public court even under the new