"It is not fit that Ethel should give up everything, health and all, to such a set as these.

They look as if they had been picked out of the gutter--dirt, squalor, everything disgusting, and summer coming on, too, and that horrid place with no window to open! It is utterly unbearable!" Richard stooped to pick up a heavy basket, then smiled and said, "You must get over such things as these if you mean to be a clergyman, Norman." "Whatever I am to be, it does not concern the girls being in such a place as this.

I am surprised that you could suffer it." There was no answer--Richard was walking off with his basket, and putting it into the carriage.

Norman was not pleased with himself, but thought it his duty to let his father know his opinion of Ethel's weekly resort.

All he wished was to avoid Ethel herself, not liking to show her his sentiments, and he was glad to see her put into the gig with Aubrey and Mary.
They rushed into the drawing-room, full of glee, when they came home, all shouting their news together, and had not at first leisure to perceive that Margaret had some tidings for them in return.