He seemed a great deal affected, and Mark and Millicent were equally sorry to part with the faithful fellow.
"Well, old man," Dick Chetwynd said, when Mark entered the room, where he was still at breakfast, "I was beginning to wonder whether you had gone to Reigate.

Why, when I saw you last Friday you told me that you would look me up in a day or two." "I have been busy showing London to Mrs.Cunningham and Miss Conyers," he replied--for Millicent had insisted on keeping her former name, at any rate for the present--and Mark was somewhat glad that there had been no necessity for entering into any explanations.

It was agreed that when he went down to discharge some of the servants and called upon his friends he should say nothing of the change in his position, but should assign as a motive that he intended to travel about for a long time, and that he felt he could not settle down in the lonely house, at any rate for two or three years; and therefore intended to diminish the establishment.
"You will have some breakfast, Mark ?" "No, thank you.

I breakfasted two hours ago." "Then you still keep to your intention to stay in London for a while ?" "Yes.

I don't feel that I could bear the house alone," Mark replied.