'
'Why is it inconvenience?'
'You are too young to be without a companion. It is not fit that
you should be much alone.'
'I do not feel it.'
'It is very melancholy for you, and cannot be good for you. They
will go down to The Horns so that you will not be absolutely in
London, and you will find Lady Cantrip a very nice person.'
'I don't care for new people just now, papa,' she said. But to
this he paid but little heed; nor was she prepared to say that she
would not do as he directed. When therefore he left Matching, she
understood that he was going to prepare a temporary home for her.
Nothing further was said about Tregear. She was too proud to ask
that no mention of his name should be made to Lady Cantrip. And he
when he left the house did not think that he would find himself
called upon to allude to the subject.
But when Lady Cantrip made some inquiry about the girl and her
habits,--asking what were her ordinary occupations, how she was
accustomed to pass her hours, to what she chiefly devoted
herself,--then at last with much difficulty the Duke did bring
himself to tell the story.
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