'
'I know it,' he said. 'I know how good you are and how reasonable.
I know how much you have to forgive.'
'Oh no.'
'And if I have not said so as I should have done it has not been
from want of feeling. I do believe you did what you thought best
when Mary told you that story at Matching.'
'Why should your Grace go back to that?'
'Only that I may acknowledge my indebtedness to you, and say to
you somewhat fuller than I could do in my letter that I am sorry
for the pain which I gave you.'
'All that is over now;--and shall be forgiven.'
Then he spoke of his immediate plans. He would at once go back to
England by slow stages,--by very slow stages,--staying a day or two
at Salzburg, at Ratisbon, at Nuremberg, at Frankfurt, and so on.
In this way he would reach England about the tenth of October, and
Mary would then be ready to go to Custins by the time appointed.
In a day or two Lady Mary was better. 'It is terrible while it
lasts,' she said, speaking to Mrs Finn of her headache, 'but when
it has gone then I am quite well. Only'--she added after a pause,--
'only I can never be happy again while papa thinks as he does now.
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