Your bright eyes are faded, and that tender, delicate bloom has quite deserted your cheek.' 'That is only with too much gaiety and fatigue.' 'It is not, I tell you; it is the London air: you are pining for the fresh breezes of your country home, and you shall feel them before you are two days older.

And remember your situation, dearest Helen; on your health, you know, depends the health, if not the life, of our future hope.' 'Then you really wish to get rid of me ?' 'Positively, I do; and I will take you down myself to Grassdale, and then return.

I shall not be absent above a week or fortnight at most.' 'But if I must go, I will go alone: if you must stay, it is needless to waste your time in the journey there and back.' But he did not like the idea of sending me alone.
'Why, what helpless creature do you take me for,' I replied, 'that you cannot trust me to go a hundred miles in our own carriage, with our own footman and a maid to attend me?
If you come with me I shall assuredly keep you.

But tell me, Arthur, what is this tiresome business; and why did you never mention it before ?' 'It is only a little business with my lawyer,' said he; and he told me something about a piece of property he wanted to sell, in order to pay off a part of the incumbrances on his estate; but either the account was a little confused, or I was rather dull of comprehension, for I could not clearly understand how that should keep him in town a fortnight after me.
Still less can I now comprehend how it should keep him a month, for it is nearly that time since I left him, and no signs of his return as yet.

In every letter he promises to be with me in a few days, and every time deceives me, or deceives himself.