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Updated: September 6, 2025
She evidently did not know that her brother-in-law had written himself, and before they could start a telegram terrified them, but proved to contain no fresh tidings, only a renewed summons. Miss Headworth forgot all her resolutions about Mr. Egremont's hospitality her Alice was her only thought, and all the remedies that had been found efficacious at Dieppe.
Miss Headworth was amazed that he who had helped her in many a little question bordering on law should not proffer his aid now in this greatest stress. He was a resolute, self-controlled man, and she never guessed at the feeling that made him judge himself to be no fitting champion for Alice Egremont against her husband.
But when there was reason to think that success had been complete, when Miss Headworth had been persuaded by Mary that it was wiser on all accounts not to mortify Alice by refusing the two guineas a week offered for Miss Egremont's expenses; when a couple of boxes of clothes and books had arrived, and Ursula found herself settled at Micklethwayte till after Christmas, she began first to admit to herself that somehow the place was not all that it had once been to her.
They also received girls as boarders attending the High School. So did Miss Headworth, who had all her life been one of those people who seem condemned to toil to make up for the errors or disasters of others. First she helped to educate a brother, and soon he had died to leave an orphan daughter to be bred up at her cost.
It was soon over; and while the baby and his attendants, with Miss Headworth, were being packed into the carriage, and her uncle and aunt bowing off the grand god-father, she clutched her cousin's arm, and said, 'Mark; where's Mr. Dutton? 'I I didn't know he was coming, but now you ask, I believe I saw him this morning. 'I know he is here. 'Do you want to see him? said Mark kindly.
He said that some friend of my grandmother had written her word of goings on at Freshwater between his brother and the young governess, and that they went off at once to put a stop to it, but found us left with the German maid, who declared that Miss Headworth had gone off with Mr. Egremont in the yacht.
Indeed, in speaking of the scene, William Egremont was utterly overwhelmed. 'And that's the woman that I treated as a mere outcast! he cried, walking about the little room. 'Oh God, forgive me! I shall never forgive myself. Poor Miss Headworth!
I think I should know Miss Headworth again, and she would hardly know me. 'You see what comes of absconding. 'After all, it was best, said Mark. 'Supposing her to be the real woman, which I don't expect, it might have been awkward if she had heard my name! How can we ascertain the history of this person without committing ourselves?
'It is young Mark's most earnest wish and his father 'Lady Kirkaldy hesitated for a word, and Miss Headworth put in: 'His father! Why would he never even acknowledge either Alice's letters or mine? We wrote several times both to him and Lady Adelaide, and never received any reply, except one short one, desiring he might not be troubled on such a subject. It was cruel!
Come and help me to get her to promise. Do do dearest auntie, and she began the coaxing and caressing natural to her, but Nuttie did not join in it, and Miss Headworth shook her head and said gravely 'Don't, Alice. It is of no use. I tell you once for all that my mind is made up.
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