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Updated: May 23, 2025
'They'll be married yet before the summer is over, Mrs Askerton said to her husband that afternoon. 'I believe a man may have anything he chooses to ask for, if he'll only ask hard enough. And they were married in the autumn, if not actually in the summer.
If she loved this 'accursed beast, let her marry him; only for that was now his one difficulty only he could not bring himself to think it possible that she should love him. 'I suppose you will never see this place again? said Mrs Askerton after a long pause. 'I hope I shall, very often, said Clara. 'Why should I not see it again? It is not going out of the family.
Besides, it's much better that he should know. 'I am sorry that you said anything about it. 'You are ashamed that he should know that you are here, said Mrs Askerton, in a tone of reproach. 'Ashamed! No; I am not ashamed. But I would sooner that he had not been told as yet. Of course he would have been told before long. 'But you are not angry with me? 'Angry!
'As far as I can see, she said, 'I may give up writing altogether for the future, unless some day you may care to hear from me. 'But you are not going away. 'Not just yet if you will keep me. To tell you the truth, Mrs Askerton, I do not yet know where on earth to take myself. 'Wait here till we turn you out. 'I have got to put my house in order. You know what I mean.
During the period of his visit he did not see Colonel Askerton, nor did he again see Mrs Askerton. He went to the cottage once, with the special object of returning the colonel's call; but the master was out, and he was not specially invited in to see the mistress.
It was quite dusk at this time, the days being just at their shortest, and Colonel Askerton, according to his custom, would have been riding, or returning from his ride. Clara had been over two hours at the cottage, and had been aware when she reached it that he had not as yet gone out.
He was a jewel of a cousin, and she must begin to call him Will as speedily as possible. At last they came round in their walk to the gate leading into Colonel Askerton's garden; and here in the garden, close to the gate, they found Mrs Askerton.
'No not exactly out of the family. That is, it will belong to your cousin. 'And cousins may be as far apart as strangers, you mean; but Will and I are not like that; are we, Will? 'I hardly know what we are like, said he. 'You do not mean to say that you will throw me over? But the truth is, Mrs Askerton, that I do not mean to be thrown over.
As it was, she knew not how to introduce the subject of Captain Aylmer's letter, and was almost inclined to wait, thinking that Mrs Askerton might tell her own story without any such introduction. But nothing of the kind was forthcoming.
But she did write a letter to Mrs Askerton a letter which she would send or not on the morrow, according to the state of her mind as it might then be. In this she declared her purpose of leaving Aylmer Park on the day after Captain Aylmer's arrival, and asked to be taken in at the cottage. An answer was to be sent to her, addressed to the Great Northern Railway Hotel.
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