I suppose now it is time to return.

They expect some of the neighbours to drink tea, and I must doff my fishing-jacket.

Come!" As they strolled towards the house, Ardworth broke a silence which had lasted for some moments.
"And how is that dear good Fielden?
I ought to have guessed him at once, when you spoke of your clergyman and his young charge; but I did not know he was at Southampton." "He has exchanged his living for a year, on account of his wife's health, and rather, I think also, with the wish to bring poor Susan nearer to Laughton, in the chance of her uncle seeing her.

But you are, then, acquainted with Fielden ?" "Acquainted!--my best friend.

He was my tutor, and prepared me for Caius College.