We were to go to town in ten days, and you would not think of returning to fetch me.
Of course I will go with you.

I have already begun to pack my things, and Jane is now at it." Her father, not knowing how to oppose her, yielded, and Emily before she went to bed had made the ladies of the house aware that she also intended to start the next morning at eight o'clock.
During the first part of the journey very little was said between Mr.
Wharton and Emily.

There were other persons in the carriage, and she, though she had determined in some vague way that she would speak some words to her father before she reached their own house, had still wanted time to resolve what those words should be.

But before she had reached Gloucester she had made up her mind, and going on from Gloucester she found herself for a time alone with her father.

She was sitting opposite to him, and after conversing for a while she touched his knee with her hand.