The Roughsedges also, who had walked so far for sociability's sake, must return to the village and early dinner.

The party broke up.
Miss Mallory, as she made her good-byes, appeared a little flushed and discomposed.

But the unconscious fire in her glance, and the vigor of her carriage, did but add to her good looks.

Captain Roughsedge, as he touched her hand, asked whether he should find her at home that afternoon if he called, and Diana absently said yes.
"What a strange impracticable man!" cried Miss Mallory hotly, as the ladies turned into the Beechcote drive.

"It is really a misfortune to find a man of such opinions in this place." "The Vicar ?" said Mrs.Colwood, bewildered "A Little Englander!--a _socialist_! And so _rude_ too! I asked him to let me help him with, his poor--and he threw back my offers in my face.
What they wanted, he said, was not charity, but justice.