May Mr Kenyon be told?
Or is it not kinder and wiser to spare him the responsibility of knowing?
Mrs Jameson, who had made a friendly proposal similar to that of Miss Bayley,--may she be half-told?
Or shall she be invited to join the travellers on their way?
What books shall be brought?
What baggage?
And how may a box and a carpet bag be conveyed out of 50 Wimpole Street with least observation?
It was deeply repugnant to Miss Barrett's feelings to practise reserve on such a matter as this with her father.

Her happier companion had informed his father and mother of their plans, and had obtained from the elder Mr Browning a sum of money, asked for as a loan rather than a gift, sufficient to cover the immediate expenses of the journey.

Mr Barrett was entitled to all respect, and as for affection he received from his daughter enough to make the appearance of disloyalty to him carry a real pang to her heart.

But she believed that she had virtually no choice; her nerves were not of iron; the roaring of the Great Western express she might face but not an angry father.

A loud voice, and a violent "scene," such as she had witnessed, until she fainted, when Henrietta was the culprit, would have put an end to the Italian project through mere physical collapse and ruin.