to town i should have gone on ant being a cruel wretch to the end i wanted dis bob if ever a girl did and i ve got it poor little girl said bob sadly but now i like you better than any one ii the whole world save and lady and one other person and you are th greatest help and comfort to me i have got and we will always be friends now bob fo ever and ever and ever as he kissed her little hand the tears into her blue eyes � she had made him so much and she knew how gladly he have borne all her pain for her if he though his own was no light burden oh bob she said wistfully then away but he knew what she meant and tha there was not never could be any and that almost stuck in his thoughts b night and day ill the lovely chapter and to the day before was expected back at came a letter written in mrs s laborious hand which had never kept pace with her brain which ran as follows � house park lane october honoured miss my lady is very ill � though she keeps it from mr and cries in her sleep and the curse lies on her mind as she called down upon you and she is well aware now she done you wrong and if i may make so bold as to say so honoured miss a sight of you and a kind word would save her a bad illness i write this quite but though my lady s too proud to say it or ever own she was in the wrong flowers in may i the lovely wouldn t be as welcome as you d be to her now she seems to see as how the here mistake was partly rubbed out engagement ain t for mr s happiness � and i hope honoured miss yours as we have all heard on may be just as happy as can be honoured miss will you please accept me and mr s humble respects your obedient servant read this letter carefully over not once but many times before she took it tc her father was there any plot among the old servant to bring her face to face with they dislike or was in lad s bad books as once she her self had been she said when he had read thi letter what does it mean it means that jane is fool and her folly has come back to h said angrily for he had never forgiven tha cruel letter about his girl and never she did not think you good enough for he precious son and now she doesn the lovely think another woman good enough � and that s all about it he added with a man s masculine up of details yes said remembering aunt jane s stolen visit to kiss in his sleep that early morning and of the look on her face but it s a hard thing to bring up your child to make some one else happy � and that s just how she feels you see he is quite old � at least thirty two � and the others have all married and he hasn t so she gets a fit of the said lord well he added of course if you mean to run away again i can t stop you no said quite gravely no one on earth would stop her once she had made up her mind but if she died and i hadn t forgiven her it would worry me to the end of my days oh cried lord impatiently you are all in the same boat here is a letter from the lawyers saying i must go up if only for a few hours to swear my evidence and he quoted a case shortly coming on in which just then he was involved and of the deepest interest to masters of the y very well said we can go up together by the early train and i shall do some after going to aunt jane for an hour we can catch the five o clock back and shall still get home in time for dinner at nine with lord an egg with a that suggested some one s head probably and for once displayed such real signs of temper that hastily beat a retreat to bob whom she saw at some distance crossing the park from court so it would always be he thought as with joy he saw her coming to meet him dear young maid changing gradually into dear old maid and he growing into a comfortable old bachelor and coming over most days to shoot or hunt but always to talk to her what is it he said when she had tucked into her waist belt the knot of autumn wild flowers � all yellow of course for man may mix his colours in as he pleases nature never � he had gathered on his way how do you know she said swiftly don t i know every shade of your face and ther are at least a thousand you are alive to day dear not a mere doll whose wires the lovely are in admirable working order but still a doll yes she was almost dancing as she stood opposite him under the tree all the of youth restored in her ay and its beauty u i am going to town to morrow to aunt x who is very ill her face a little not much and f he was keen to note the hard of the attempt and you will see � him l most unlikely and what if i do she could not keep the intense longing out of her j voice he is s not mine j poor said bob with real bitter � ness probably 