dear you will have something sir knows all about the will that will not decide said abruptly surely dear sir says you are to have two thousand a year and the house at what i have will depend on what i accept said you and my uncle must not attempt to cross me and persuade me about this i will do everything i can do to make you happy but in anything about my husband i must not bo interfered with is eight hundred a year enough for you mamma more than enough dear you must not think of giving me so much mrs paused a little and then said do you know who is to have the estates and the rest of the money yes said waving her hand in dismissal of the subject i know everything it is all perfectly right and i wish never to have it mentioned the mother was silent looked away and rose book viii � fruit and seed to fetch a fan screen with a slight flush on her delicate cheeks wondering imagining she did not like to meet her daughter s eyes and sat down again under a sad what wretchedness her child had perhaps gone through which yet must remain as it always had been locked away from their mutual speech but was watching her mother with that new which experience had given her and in tender at her own she said come and sit nearer to me mamma and don t be unhappy mrs did as she was told but bit her lips in the vain attempt to hinder tears leaned towards her and said i mean to be very wise i do really and good � oh so good to you dear old sweet mamma you won t know me only you must not cry the resolve that had in her mind was that she would ask whether she ought to accept any of her husband s money � whether she might accept what would enable her to provide for her mother the poor thing felt strong enough to do anything that would give her a higher place in s mind an invitation that sir pressed on her with daniel kind was that she and mrs should go straight with him to park lane and make his house their abode as long as mourning and other details needed attending to in london town he insisted was just then the most retired of places and he proposed to exert himself at once in getting all articles belonging to away from the house in square no proposal could have suited her better than this of staying a little while in park lane it would be easy for her there to have an interview with if she only knew how to get a letter into his hands asking him to come to her during the journey sir having understood that she was acquainted with the purport of her husband s wiu ventured to talk before her and to her about her future arrangements referring here and there to mildly agreeable prospects as matters of course and otherwise shedding a cheerfulness over her position it seemed to him really the more graceful course for a widow to recover her spirits on finding that her husband had not dealt as handsomely by her as he might have done it was the s fault if he all her grief at his departure by giving a reason for it so that she might be supposed to look sad not because he had left her but book viii � and because he had left her poor the having his doubly by the favourable wind on his own fortunes and by compassion for had become quite in his behaviour to her called her my dear and in mentioning to mr with its various advantages and spoke of what we might do to make the best of that property sat by in pale silence while sir with his face turned towards mrs or mr that mrs might perhaps prefer letting to there during any part of the year in which case he thought that it might be on capital terms to one of the fellows engaged with the coal sir had seen enough of the place to know that it was as comfortable and picturesque a box as any man need desire providing his desires were within a coal area shouldn t mind about the myself said the with that which belongs to the mood nothing is more healthy and if one s business lay there would be a paradise it makes quite a feature in history of the county with the little tower and the fine piece of water � the prettiest print in the book daniel der a more important place than i suppose said mr much said the i was there with my poor brother � it is more than a quarter of a century ago but i remember it very well the rooms may not be larger but the grounds are on a different scale our poor dear is empty after all said mrs when it came to the point mr declared off and there has been no one to take it since i might as well have accepted lord s kind offer that i should remain in it another year rent free for i should have kept the place and warmed i hope you have got something snug instead said sir a little too snug said mr smiling at his sister in law you are rather thick upon the ground had turned with a changed glance when her mother spoke of being empty this conversation passed during one of the long unaccountable pauses often experienced in foreign trains at some country station there was a dreamy sunny stillness over the fields stretching to the boundary of and to the talk within the carriage seemed book � fruit and seed only to make the larger 