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Updated: May 23, 2025
Even as long ago as two years since, there had been neither use nor propriety in keeping the shooting for the squire's son, and it had been let with the cottage to Colonel Askerton. So Colonel Askerton had come there with his wife, and no one in the neighbourhood had known anything about them.
Who is so very unlike the sort of people with whom you have lived. I may, at any rate, say that. 'I don't know that. I haven't lived much with any one yet except papa, and my aunt, and you. 'But you know a gentleman when you see him. 'Come, Mrs Askerton, I will not stand this. I thought you had done with the subject, and now you begin again.
She found Mrs Askerton as usual alone in the little drawing-room, sitting near the window with a book in her hand; but Clara knew at once that her friend had not been reading that she had been sitting there looking out upon the clouds, with her mind fixed upon things far away.
You must tell me everything about the place and especially as to Bessy. Bessy is never to be sold is she, Will? Bessy was the cow which Belton had given her. 'Not if you choose to keep her. 'I will go down and see to her myself, said Mrs Askerton, and will utter little prayers of my own over her horns that certain events that I desire may come to pass. Good-bye, Mr Belton.
But the information which it contained about the Askertons 'the communication, as Mrs Askerton herself would have called it made her for the moment almost forget Lady Aylmer and her insolence. Could this story be true? And if true, how far would it be imperative on her to take the hint, or rather obey the order, which had been given her? What steps should she take to learn the truth?
'Well, I'll come, said Mrs Askerton, 'but I shall not be a bit surprised if I hear that she goes back to Norfolk the next day. So Mrs Askerton came, and Miss Belton did not go back to Norfolk. Indeed, at the end of the visit, Mrs Askerton had almost taught herself to believe that William Belton had kept his secret, even from his sister.
Having, through her son, dispatched her advice about the house at Perivale, which simply amounted to this, that Clara should expressly state her willingness to live there alone whenever it might suit her husband to be in London or elsewhere, she went to work on other points, connected with the Amedroz family, and eventually succeeded in learning something very much like the truth as to poor Mrs Askerton and her troubles.
When he said something about not troubling her, the girl told him that her mistress wished to speak to him, and then he had no alternative but to allow himself to be shown into the drawing-room. 'I want to see you a minute, said Mrs Askerton, bowing to him without putting out her hand, 'that I might ask you how you find your cousin. 'She is pretty well, I think.
'And now what shall you do? Mrs Askerton asked of Clara, at length prepared to go. 'Do? in what way? I shall do nothing. 'But you will write to Captain Aylmer? 'Yes I shall write to him. 'And about this? 'Yes I suppose I must write to him. 'And what will you say? 'That I cannot tell. I wish I knew what to say. If it were to his mother I could write my letter easily enough.
Since the days in which her troubles had come upon Mrs Askerton, Clara Amedroz was the first female friend who had come near her to comfort her, and she was very loth to abandon such comfort. There had, too, been something more than comfort, something almost approaching to triumph, when she found that Clara had clung to her with affection after hearing the whole story of her life.
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