But he
received the next day at home a much more kindly-written note from
her:
'DEAR LORD SILVERBRIDGE,
'You are so good! You always do just what you think people
will like best. Nothing could please me so much as seeing your
sister, of whom of course I have heard very very much. There shall
be nobody here but Miss Cass.
'Yours most sincerely,
M.G.'
'How I do wish I were a man!' his sister said to him when they
were in the hansom together.
'You'd have a great deal more trouble.'
'But I'd have a hansom of my own, and go where I pleased. How
would you like to be shut up in a place like The Horn?'
'You can go out if you like.'
'Not like you. Papa thinks it's the proper place for me to live
in, and so I must live there. I don't think a woman ever chooses
how or where she shall live herself.'
'You are not going to take up woman's rights, I hope.'
'I think I shall if I stay at The Horns much longer. What would
papa say if he heard that I was going to give a lecture at the
Institute?'
'The governor has had so many things to bear that a trifle such as
that would make but little difference.
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