i don t but such words as yours make me feel that it might possibly be so that s all a woman then they went down the stairs together stopping to get his hat and stick from the table in the hall i fancy i left my stick down here too said margaret searching among the various sticks and in the stand now when you are ready � i am really quite ready he said half then they went out into the bright morning air passed across the road into the park choosing the and most retired road in all that wide and lovely expanse for this their first step on way together chapter xxv memories but will it mend the road before to grieve for that behind � after this the news was soon all over the town captain wrote at once to dr and all his women relations came and called upon mrs and margaret now as a matter of fact was very well off for relations in the first place he had three handsome sisters all in london at that time all younger than himself all well married and all rather pleased that their brother should be thinking of settling down and taking his proper place in society i am really very glad that dear old is settling himself said mrs when she called the following day at the house in queen s gate of course i don t know your cousin very well but i am very glad that he has chosen her i have seen a good deal of my brother the last five years especially since he left the service and was more or less in london and i assure you the way that he has been run after has made me quite indignant and it is a great pleasure to me and a great satisfaction to me to feel that he is going to marry somebody whom i have not seen him with attentions of that kind no the attentions have been all on the other side said mrs somewhat indignantly yes that of course i have seen for myself they ought to be on the other side there is something wrong memories about a woman who has to do her own as it is my brother s engagement is an unbounded satisfaction to me but he has had great attentions from families with whom i really should not have cared to identify myself so you see it is a great pleasure to me to come and wish miss north every happiness and prosperity the other sisters who called later on gave vent to much the same kind of sentiments we shall do everything we can to make margaret feel welcome and happy among us said mrs who was the next to appear for many reasons i must say that i am very pleased that she and have made a match of it i am more pleased than if he had married any other girl that i know in london yes i am sorry that she is not at home but you will tell her with my love won t you that i came to her my best congratulations and to say how very pleased we all are that she and have decided to make a match of it and i hope she will come and see me any afternoon about five when i am generally at home but i am always to be found on sunday of course if they have any engagement i shall not expect them but if they are doing nothing it will give me much pleasure to see them next sunday afternoon but these of course were but preliminary to future friendship each one of captain s relations made a dinner party in margaret s honour mrs also gave a large dinner party in return and so the month sped happily on the days indeed seemed to fly there was no thought or question of margaret going back to excepting for three days during the week preceding her wedding she was to be married in town and was to be her only she had no time to think during these four brief weeks for besides all the of a brilliant season that was dying hard and unwillingly she had also to find time to attend to the details of her costly to arrange with mrs who should be asked to the wedding and to receive and acknowledge wedding presents which her in hundreds you will let me come down to with you said a few days before margaret left london oh do you care to go she exclaimed it is such a dull place a woman i like to go he said rather wistfully i should like to go for reasons of al i want to be in the place where you and i first met for just a few days with you and shall i tell you margaret i have been so unhappy in i would like to take my revenge out of the old place and feel that it had paid something of its debt towards me just as you like she said and i would like to buy you something at the big where we used to look in at the windows to see what new things they had got so if you don t mind i really would like to go oh just as you like i shall be very busy all the time i must turn all my things over i have many clothes and which i should like to give away or destroy before i give up my little room for ever but why don t you bring them to oh doubtfully would you i think so there is plenty of room there and you can turn them out at your leisure what sort of things do you wear oh i have hosts of possessions music books pictures photographs dresses all manner 