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CHAPTER 24
She Must Be Made to Obey
Lady Mary Palliser down at the Horns had as much liberty allowed
to as is usually given to young ladies in these very free days.
There was indeed no restriction placed upon her at all. Had
Tregear gone down to Richmond and asked for the young lady, and
had Lady Cantrip at the time been out and the young lady at home,
it would have depended altogether upon the young lady whether she
would have seen her lover or not. Nevertheless Lady Cantrip kept
her eyes open, and when the letter came from Tregear she was aware
that the letter had come. But the letter found its way into Lady
Mary's hands and was read in the seclusion of her own bedroom. 'I
wonder whether you would mind reading that,' she said very shortly
afterwards to Lady Cantrip. 'What answer ought I to make?'
'Do you think any answer ought to be made, my dear?'
'Oh yes; I must answer him.'
'Would your papa wish it?'
'I told papa that I would not promise not to write to him. I think
I told him that he should see any letters that there were.
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