Or for a week or two
he might do very well without me. But there are other reasons.
There is no one whom your mother respected more than Lady
Cantrip.'
'I never heard her speak a word about Lady Cantrip.'
'Both he and she are your father's intimate friends.'
'Does Papa want to be--alone here?'
'It is you, not himself, of whom he is thinking.'
'Therefore, I must think of him. Mrs Finn, I do not wish him to be
alone. I am sure it would be better that I should stay with him.'
'He feels that it would not be well that you should live without
the companionship of some lady.'
'Then let him find some lady. You would be the best, because he
knows you so well. I, however, am not afraid of being alone. I am
sure he ought not to be here quite by himself. If he bids me go, I
must go, and then of course I shall go where he sends me; but I
won't say that I think it best that I should go, and certainly I
do not want to go to Lady Cantrip.' This she said with great
decision, as though the matter was one on which she had altogether
made up her mind.
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