If he will not do so, nor my aunt, the house must be shut up.

I am most anxious that this should not be done.

I shall implore him to remain here, and to be here exactly as I should have been,--had things with me not have been so very unfortunate.

He will at any rate have a house to offer you, if--" "Lord Scroope!" "I know what you are going to say, Sophie." "I don't know that I am as yet disposed to marry for the sake of a house to shelter me." "Of course you would say that; but still I think that I have been right to tell you.

I am sure you will believe my assurance that Jack knows nothing of all this." That same evening he said nearly the same thing to his brother, though in doing so he made no special allusion to Sophie Mellerby.