Though they are old, they are perfectly able to look after themselves--and other people; and if they were not, they would not like _me_ to take care of them.

They have their own servants and Mrs.Ash.And they have never liked me, Peter, though we have lived together so many years." "That is nonsense," said Peter, very calmly; "and if _they_ don't want you there, mother, _I_ do.

Of course you must live at the Dower House; my father left it to you.

And I shall want you more than ever now." "I don't see how," said Lady Mary.
"Why, _we_--Sarah and I," said Peter, lingering fondly over the words which linked that beloved name with his own, "if we ever--if _it_ ever came off--we shall naturally be away from home a good deal.

I couldn't ask Sarah to tie herself down to this dull old place, could I ?" "I suppose not," said Lady Mary.
"She's accustomed to going about the world a good deal," said Peter.
"No doubt." "Even _I_," said Peter, turning a flushed face towards his mother--"I am too young, as Sarah says--and I feel it myself since I have seen something of the life she lives--to become a complete fixture, like my father was.