14/19 'Tuesday, the 25th, for three nights. Leaving home following week for some time. It is next week, Aunt Fanny." "I shall not be able to go," gasped Mrs.Alwynn, sinking back on her sofa, while something very like tears came into her eyes; "and I've never been there, Ruth. The Thursbys went once, in old Sir George's time, and Mrs.Thursby always says it is the show-place in the county, and that it is such a pity I have not seen it. And last autumn, when John went, I was in Devonshire, and never even heard of his going till I got home, or I'd have come back. |