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The more the better. They'll like it." The Osborns arrived at The Kennel Farm on a lovely rainy morning. The green of the fields and trees and hedges was sweetly drenched, and the flowers held drops which sparkled when the fitful sun broke forth and searched for the hidden light in them. A Palstrey carriage comfortably met them and took them to their destination.

"Is it true," the pert housemaid persisted, "that the Osborns can't abide her?" "It's true," said Jane, severely, "that she's goodness itself to them, and they ought to adore her." "We hear they don't," put in the tallest footman. "And who wonders. If she was an angel, there's just a chance that she may give Captain Osborn a wipe in the eye, though she is in her thirties."

Depend upon it, the story did not get off from the Osborns by any means as it came back to Aunt Maria. 'I should like to know. 'Don't let us make it any worse; and above all, do not let us tell Lucy. 'Oh, no! said Sophy, emphatically.

Ennis reasoned it was after Dora that Fitzroy had gone; that in his jealous misery he had kept watch upon her, had followed to town on hearing of her flight, had followed further, and this it was that gave Ennis the hope that she was accompanied by such worthy people as the Osborns. If that were so, it could mean but one thing. It was to join Rawdon, perhaps to be joined to Rawdon.

This was, in fact, true without detracting from her reverence in either case. The Osborns were breakfasting in their unpleasant sitting-room in Duke Street when Lady Walderhurst's letter arrived.

The avenue leading to it was her favourite walk; a certain seat under a tree on the island her favourite resting-place. "It is so still there," she had said to the Osborns. "No one ever goes there but myself. When I have crossed the little old bridge and sit down among the greenness with my book or work, I feel as if there was no world at all.

As she had at once ranged herself as an aid on the side of Lady Agatha, so she ranged herself entirely without obtrusiveness on the side of the Osborns. "It's true that she's a good sort," Hester said when they went away. "Her days of being hard up are not far enough away to be forgotten. She hasn't any affectation, at any rate. It makes it easier to stand her."

But even the mere reason itself, as a reason, has not once risen in your benign and pellucid mind. You have a pellucid mind, Emily; I should be rather proud of the word if I had invented it myself to describe you. But I didn't. It was Walderhurst. You have actually wakened up the man's intellects, such as they are." She evidently had a number of opinions of the Osborns.

If he had let it drop and allowed it to dangle in an unbiassed manner from its cord, Emily would have felt more comfortable, because she was sure his demeanour would have appeared a degree more encouraging to the Osborns. "Are you glad to be in England again?" she asked Mrs. Osborn. "I never was here before," answered the young woman. "I have never been anywhere but in India."

She drew off her glove which she was putting on and laid her hand once more in his. "Time can change nothing. I have decided." As she was going down the steps to the carriage, she turned and came back. "Do not come to see me! I shall come to you to say good-by. It is better for you not to come to the house just now. I might not be able to see you." Isabel had the carriage driven to the Osborns'.