5/13 I shall go for a couple of days, but I shall not stay longer. If you are going perhaps you would allow me to travel with you." "Of course it would be very kind; but I don't suppose that I shall go. I am sure Lady Ushant won't believe that I am kept away from her by any pleasure of my own here. I can explain it all to her and she will understand me." She hardly meant to reproach him. She did not mean to assume an intimacy sufficient for reproach. |