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Mrs Askerton had told her that the 'communication' would be made by her Cousin Will. Her Cousin Will had gone away without a word of Mrs Askerton, and now the 'communication' had come from Captain Aylmer! The Monday and Tuesday were rainy days, and the rain was some excuse for her not going to the cottage.
'Don't look so innocent, Clara. You know what I mean. What were the results at last of your cousin's diligence as a detective officer? 'Mrs Askerton, you wrong my cousin greatly. He never once mentioned your name while he was with us. He did not make a single allusion to you, or to Colonel Askerton, or to the cottage. 'He did not? 'Never once. 'Then I beg his pardon.
At this moment he's out somewhere, thinking of what is going on, instead of moping in the house. He couldn't bear the idea of Will's coming, and now he is already beginning to complain because he's going away. 'Will, indeed! 'And why not Will? He's my cousin. 'Yes ten times removed. But so much the better if he's to be anything more than a cousin. 'He is to be nothing more, Mrs Askerton.
Early on the next morning Will Belton went away, and again Clara got up to give him his breakfast. On this occasion he had no thought of kissing her. He went away without having had a word said to him about Mrs Askerton, and then Clara settled herself down to the work of deliberation. What should she do with reference to the communication that had been made to her by Captain Aylmer?
'And so you are really going? said Mrs Askerton. 'Yes; we start tomorrow, said Clara. 'I am not thinking of the journey to London, said Mrs Askerton, 'but of the danger and privations of your subsequent progress to the North. 'I shall do very well. I am not afraid that any one will eat me. 'There are so many different ways of eating people! Are there not, Mr Belton?
Then Mrs Askerton looked at Mr Belton, but made no immediate reply; nor did she say anything further about Clara's journey. She looked at Mr Belton, and Will caught her eye, and understood that he was being rebuked for not having carried out that little scheme which, had been prepared for him. But he had come to hate the scheme, and almost hated Mrs Askerton for proposing it.
Perhaps I have no plans for the future; and if I have plans, perhaps I do not mean to divulge them. 'I had better come to the point at once, said Mrs Askerton. 'If if if it should ever suit you, pray come here to us. Flowers shall not be more welcome in May. It is difficult to speak of it all, though you both understand everything as well as I do.
It sounds of poverty and dependence, and endless trouble given to others, and all the miseries of female dependence. If I were a young man I should be allowed to settle for myself. 'There would be no question about the property in that case, said the colonel. 'And there need be no question now, said Mrs Askerton.
Her possession of it does not depend on any act of hers or, indeed, upon her own will or wish in the matter. On this subject Colonel Askerton had argued, using all his skill to make Clara in truth perceive that she was her father's heiress through the generosity undoubtedly of her cousin and that she had no alternative but to assume the possession which was thus thrust upon her.
Mrs Askerton was on that occasion silenced, and she said nothing more about Mr Belton till after Clara had returned from Perivale. The journey itself from Belton to Perivale was always a nuisance, and was more so now than usual, as it was made in the disagreeable month of November.
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