When he did so Lady Mary at once asked
whether she might not be with him, but he would not permit it. The
house in London would, he said, be more gloomy even than Matching.
'I am quite ashamed of giving so much trouble,' Lady Mary said to
her new friend.
'We are delighted to have you, my dear.'
'But I know you have been obliged to leave London because I am
with you.'
'There is nothing I like so much as this place, which your father
has been kind enough to lend us. As for London, there is nothing
now to make me like being there. Both my girls are married, and
therefore I regard myself as an old woman who has done her work.
Don't you think this place very much nicer than London at this
time of the year?'
'I don't know London at all. I had only just been brought out when
poor mamma want abroad.'
The life they led was very quiet, and most probably have been felt
to be dull by Lady Cantrip, in spite of her old age and desire for
retirement. But the place itself was very lovely. May of all the
months of the year is in England the most insidious, the most
dangerous, and the most inclement.
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