11/17 It's Rattray, of one of the many Kirby Halls in this country. My one's down in Lancashire." "I suppose there's no need to tell my name ?" said I, less sadly, I daresay, than I had ever yet alluded to the tragedy which I alone survived. It was an unnecessary allusion, too, as a reference to the foregoing conversation will show. I thought it did seem strange to him: that a needless constraint was put upon him by excessive consideration for my feelings. I desired to set him at his ease as he had set me at mine. |