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They drove by the level road along the valley to a distance of a few miles, and, reaching Wellbridge, turned away from the village to the left, and over the great Elizabethan bridge which gives the place half its name.
"Father can manage that; you need not trouble yourself about that," replied Harry, hurriedly. "Where?" said Maria, then. "To a nice school where your mother was educated." "My mother?" "Ida to Wellbridge Hall." "How often should I come home and see you and Evelyn? Every week?" "I am afraid not, dear," said Harry, uneasily. "How long are the terms?" asked Maria.
Wellbridge Hall, in Emerson, where I went myself, would be a very good school. It is not expensive." Harry stared. "But, Ida, she is too young." "Not at all." "You were older when you went there." "A little older." "How far is Emerson from here?" "Only a night's journey from New York. You go to sleep in your berth, and in the morning you are there. You could always see her off. It is very easy."
As the last duty before leaving this part of England it was necessary for him to call at the Wellbridge farmhouse, in which he had spent with Tess the first three days of their marriage, the trifle of rent having to be paid, the key given up of the rooms they had occupied, and two or three small articles fetched away that they had left behind.
It was said afterwards that a cottager of Wellbridge, who went out late that night for a doctor, met two lovers in the pastures, walking very slowly, without converse, one behind the other, as in a funeral procession, and the glimpse that he obtained of their faces seemed to denote that they were anxious and sad.
In this county there was a seat of yours at Kingsbere, and another at Sherton, and another in Millpond, and another at Lullstead, and another at Wellbridge." "And shall we ever come into our own again?" "Ah that I can't tell!" "And what had I better do about it, sir?" asked Durbeyfield, after a pause.
Next, he wished to see a little of the working of a flour-mill, having an idea that he might combine the use of one with corn-growing. The proprietor of a large old water-mill at Wellbridge once the mill of an Abbey had offered him the inspection of his time-honoured mode of procedure, and a hand in the operations for a few days, whenever he should choose to come.
Clare paid a visit to the place, some few miles distant, one day at this time, to inquire particulars, and returned to Talbothays in the evening. She found him determined to spend a short time at the Wellbridge flour-mills. And what had determined him?
"O my love, why do I love you so!" she whispered there alone; "for she you love is not my real self, but one in my image; the one I might have been!" Afternoon came, and with it the hour for departure. They had decided to fulfil the plan of going for a few days to the lodgings in the old farmhouse near Wellbridge Mill, at which he meant to reside during his investigation of flour processes.
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