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I know no more than this. How should I?" "Then I will tell you something more, that I might as well have mentioned before. When Mrs Rowland had an idea that Mr Enderby might think of Hester, she told Hester that miserable day in Dingleford woods that his family expected he would soon marry a young lady of family and fortune, who was a great favourite with all his connections."
She must be moderate, she said to herself, the next day, and not let Mr Hope spend so much of his time upon her; and besides, the pony had to be sent over to Dingleford in the evening, after she had done with it, to be in readiness for her on Wednesday morning. The ride on Tuesday was happily accomplished, as that of Monday: but it was much shorter.
The moment he was gone, the little girls laid hands on the sheet of paper, on which he had been employed. As they expected, it was covered with scraps of sketches; and they exclaimed with delight, "Look here! Here is the spring. How fond Mr Hope is of drawing the spring! And here is the foot-bridge at Dingleford! And what is this? Here is a place we don't know, papa."
Miss Young was certainly included in the invitation to Dingleford woods: it was a pity she should not go; and she could not walk in wild places: the pony was training for her. Mrs Grey quite agreed that Miss Young ought to go, but thought that Mr Hope was giving himself much needless trouble; there would be room made for her in some carriage, of course.
She had an unusual fertility in such sensible suppositions and reasonable complaints; and her whole diversity of expressions of this kind was called into play about this expedition to Dingleford woods.
It was to be taken over to Dingleford the evening before, and would be waiting for its rider on the verge of the woods, when the party should arrive. Miss Young was touched, and extremely pleased with Mr Hope's attention.
"He was safe when Sydney lost sight of him, on the ridge of the hill, on the Dingleford road; but he afterwards had an accident." "What kind of accident?" inquired Margaret. "Is he killed?" asked Hester. "No, not killed. He was found insensible in the road.
The other vexation was, that there were frequent short intervals of fine weather, which were immediately taken advantage of for a drive, or a walk, or a sail; and it came out one day from the children, who had learned it in the schoolroom, that the Miss Ibbotsons had been in Dingleford woods.
"I shall talk to Master George, however, before he goes to Dingleford again, or he may chance to find it easier some day to miss his footing than to hold it." "I wonder Mrs Rowland is afraid to let George go out with you," said Sophia, "considering what things he does when you are not with him."
There had been no such intention when the party set out; they had not designed to go nearly so far; but they had been tempted on by the beauty of the evening and of the scenery, till they had found it the shortest way to come home through the Dingleford woods.