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'I am much obliged, I am sure, that you make an exception in my favour, but I cannot take credit myself at the expense of my mother and Louise. 'Oh! I like Louise. 'And not my mother, I infer? 'No. Mary had not intended to tell him this point-blank, but he had taken such a line with her for not liking Limeton that she felt indignant, and not inclined to mince the facts at all.
She could scarcely repress her disgust as she walked the grimy streets, saw the pretentious, over-dressed people, who thus flaunted their wealth in the faces of their less fortunate neighbours, and then thought It might have been her home. To change clean, beautiful Mapleton for Limeton!
That Tom took an early opportunity of calling himself a fool and begging Mary's forgiveness, and Mary contradicted him, and with many tears shed on his vest declared herself an unreasonable little vixen, not worth his love, and that she was willing to live in the very heart of Limeton if necessary.
'And Limeton, Mary; it's such a splendid city quite different from this place. Mary fancies she detects a slight deprecatory tone in the way he says 'this place. 'Yes, I suppose it is very different. Horridly dirty, isn't it? 'Not more dirty than a prosperous manufacturing city must inevitably be, and within a mile all round there is the loveliest scenery you can imagine.
She wanted to let him know that she could never make her home in Limeton, before he could make any plans with his mother. When Saturday came, she told Louise she thought of going to the depot to meet Tom; and Louise, with more delicacy than Mary had given her credit for, said: 'Oh! that is just the thing.
'I'm sure we shall never get along if Tom remains so wrapped up in his mother, and sister, and Limeton. A great deal to learn from Louise, indeed!
But then, in his growing affection for her, and his absorbing anxiety as to its being returned, he had left off quoting 'my mother' and Limeton quite so often; and Mary flattered herself it was because he was beginning to see the superiority of Mapleton, and thus tacitly acknowledged it. A few days after her betrothal she received a letter from Mrs.
He had seemed to her, too, to have an unpleasantly good opinion of his own people and his home, which was Limeton as every one knows, much behind Mapleton in culture and refinement, although it could boast of its greater wealth; but wealth in such a sooty atmosphere lost all attraction for Mary.
Of course, she had a little cry, and made several foolish resolutions, and then set about her preparations for an early departure with a heavy heart. A week later Mary was whirling along to Limeton, wondering what Tom's relations would be like, and whether they were like him unpolished diamonds. Could he think so much of them if they were not very nice?
The next morning Tom joined Mary in the garden, and said: 'Under the impression that you would like Limeton, I had written about a place here I wanted to buy, but from what you said last night I conclude that any plan of that sort is useless. 'Quite useless, said Mary decidedly; 'and I really think, Tom, that you had better decide your future without reference to me.
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