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'I should go, if it were only for the sake of showing that you did not consider yourself to be implicated in the matter. Lady Carbury did as she was advised, and took her daughter with her. 'Nonsense, said the mother, when Hetta objected; 'Mr Broune sees it quite in the right light.
She had not known how stern and how enduring her daughter could be. 'Hetta, she said, 'why don't you speak to me? On this very day it was Hetta's purpose to visit Mrs Hurtle at Islington. She had said no word of her intention to any one. She had chosen the Friday because on that day she knew her mother would go in the afternoon to her publisher. There should be no deceit.
"But I particularly said that it was to mean nothing." "Oh, mother, that makes it worse." Why should Hetta interfere in this way, thought Susan to herself. Had she interfered when Mr.
Dancing and flirtations come as a matter of course, and matrimony follows after with only too great rapidity. But the place was not very gay for Hetta or Susan Bell. In the first place the widow was a timid woman, and among other fears feared greatly that she should be thought guilty of setting traps for husbands.
And then, when he talked of the old-fashioned way, of being off with the old love before you are on with the new, had he not alluded to Paul Montague and this story of the American woman? But, if so, it was not for Hetta to notice it by words. He must speak more plainly than that before she could be supposed to know that he alluded to her own condition. 'It is very shocking, she said.
'I don't know what I am to say, ejaculated Hetta amidst her sobs. Whether the girl was good or bad, to be sought or to be avoided, there was so much tragedy in her position that Hetta's heart was melted with sympathy. 'I wonder whether you love anybody, and whether he loves you, said Marie. Hetta certainly had not come there to talk of her own affairs, and made no reply to this.
'But he never has. 'We have been like brothers together, one brother being very much older than the other, indeed; or like father and son. I think he should place his hopes elsewhere. 'What am I to say? If he have such hope he has not told me. I think it almost cruel that a girl should be asked in that way. 'Hetta, I should not wish to be cruel to you.
Your son would be welcome to my house, because he is your son and my cousin, little as I approve his mode of life; but I could have wished that he had chosen some other place for the work that he has on hand. 'If you wish it, Roger, we will return to London. I shall find it hard to explain to Hetta; but we will go. 'No; I certainly do not wish that. 'But you have said such hard things!
If I stay in London I can live only in some miserable lodgings. I know you will laugh at me, and tell me that I am wrong; but my idea is that I shall follow Felix wherever he goes, so that I may be near him and help him when he needs help. Hetta doesn't want me. There is nobody else that I can do any good to. 'I want you, said Mr Broune, very quietly. 'Ah, that is so kind of you.
There's no disgrace in being in love. But it's very bad to get married without being in love. That's what I think. 'It is bad, said Hetta, thinking of Roger Carbury. 'But if Felix doesn't care for me! continued Marie, sinking her voice to a low whisper, but still making her words quite audible to her companion.
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