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And when you go to Yorkshire, I shall see you perhaps every day." He looked up in astonishment and delight, and she explained that at Scarfedale Manor, her aunts' old house, she would be only two or three miles from the high moorland vicarage whither he was soon to be moved. "That will do more for me than doctors!" said Radowitz with decision.
A little later, he was riding slowly up the side of the moor towards Scarfedale, looking down on a landscape which since his childhood had been so intimate and familiar a part of himself that the thought of being wrenched away from it, immediately and for good, seemed merely absurd.
Looking round her for her bearings, she saw on the Scarfedale side of the hill, about three miles away, what she took to be her aunts' house. Surely there must be a short cut to it. Yes! there was a narrow road to be seen, winding down the hill, and across the valley, which must certainly shorten the distance.
The letter ran as follows: "DEAREST NORA, I have only been at Scarfedale Manor a week, and already I seem to have been living here for months.
He tried to scoff, but the words had burnt into his heart. It was in the early morning, a few days after her arrival at Scarfedale Manor, the house of her two maiden aunts, that Connie, while all the Scarfedale household was still asleep, took pen and paper and began a letter to Nora Hooper. On the evening before Connie left Oxford there had been a long and intimate scene between these two.
An embarrassed and thrilling silence reigned between them, till at last he said: "You are staying at Scarfedale with your aunts?" "Yes." "I heard you were there. They are only five miles from us." She said nothing. But she seemed to realise, through every nerve, the suppressed excitement of the man beside her. Another couple of minutes passed.
Had she realised that what she had said implied a good deal? or might be thought to imply it? Why should Radowitz take the trouble, after his long and exhausting experience, to come round by the Scarfedale manor-house? "It was an awful time for him," he said, his eyes on hers. "It was very strange that he should be there." She hesitated. Her lips trembled. "He was very glad to be there.
For instance here was this coming visit to her aunts in Yorkshire. Their house in Scarfedale was most uncomfortably near to Flood Castle. The boundaries of the Falloden estate ran close to her aunts' village. She would run many chances of coming across Douglas himself, however much she might try to avoid him.
Sorell had told her that the little rectory on the moors, whither he and Otto were bound as soon as the boy could be moved, stood somewhere about midway between her aunts' house and Flood, on the Scarfedale side of the range of moors girdling the Flood Castle valley. It was strange perhaps that she should be counting on Sorell's neighbourhood.
His pride would not let him sue as a pauper; and of course the Langmoors to whom she was going he understood from Scarfedale, would take good care she did not throw herself away. Quite right too. Very likely the Tamworths would capture her; and Bletchley was quite a nice fellow. When he did see her, what could they talk about? Radowitz?
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