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Updated: June 21, 2025
I jumped out of bed, and rang for the old nurse. Was Lucilla at home? No: she had gone out for a little walk. By herself? Yes by herself. In what direction? Up the valley, towards Browndown. I instantly arrived at my own conclusion. She had got the start of me thanks to my laziness in sleeping away the precious hours of the morning in bed.
It was possible to look the worst in the face boldly that he might not get the doctor's permission to leave Browndown before the time arrived for Lucilla's return to the rectory. In this event, he could only entreat her to be patient, and to remember that though he was gaining ground but slowly, he was still getting on. Under these circumstances, Lucilla was naturally vexed and dejected.
I shall pay fewer and fewer visits at the rectory, and remain longer and longer at Browndown every day. After they are married " He suddenly stopped; the words seemed to stick in his throat. He busied himself in relighting his cigar, and took a long time to do it. "After they are married," I repeated. "What then?"
Property which a thief need only put into the melting-pot, to have no fear of its being traced into his hands." Oscar stopped, and looked at me. "What can you be thinking of!" he asked. "There are no thieves in this primitive place." "There are thieves in other places," I answered. "And they may come here. Have you forgotten those two men whom we caught hanging about Browndown yesterday?"
"Write to me often," said the charming creature, "and come back to me as soon as you can." Her father took her to London. Two days before they left, I said good-bye at the rectory and at Browndown; and started once more by the Newhaven and Dieppe route for Paris. I insisted on instantly removing him from Paris, and taking him on a continental tour.
Advancing from one suspicion to another, I asked myself if the two men had roamed by mere accident into our remote part of the world or whether they had deliberately found their way to Browndown with a purpose in view.
Was it something he had brought from Browndown? We got away encumbered by Mr. Finch, who insisted on attaching himself to Oscar by the first express train, which took us straight to London. Comparison of time-tables, on reaching the terminus, showed that I had leisure to spare for a brief visit to Grosse, before we again took the railway back to Sydenham.
As it was, the only proof that I had absolved myself in his estimation consisted in his cordially shaking hands with me at the door, when I left him. "Did you meet Nugent?" he asked, as he walked with me across the enclosure in front of the house. I had gone to Browndown by a short cut at the back of the garden, instead of going through the village.
She proposed of her own accord that I should go alone to Browndown to see Oscar on my return. It is only doing common justice to myself to say that this was a relief to me. If she had had the use of her eyes, my conscience would have been easy enough but I shrank from deceiving my dear blind girl, even in the slightest things. So, with Lucilla's knowledge and approval, I went to Oscar alone.
"Is he to be trusted?" She Learns to See WITH the new morning, certain reflections found their way into my mind which were not of the most welcome sort. There was one serious element of embarrassment in my position towards Lucilla, which had not discovered itself to me when Nugent and I parted at the rectory gate. Browndown was now empty.
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