"What, all alone!" he said; "and with nothing better to do than read
fairy tales in the glowing embers! Is there no one in all this big house
to attend to your wants? But Dance will be here presently, I have no
doubt, and the good old soul will do her best to make you comfortable. I
have been to pay my respects to her ladyship, who is in one of her
unamiable moods this evening. I, however, contrived to wring from her a
reluctant consent to your paying Aunt Felicity and me a visit now and
then at Eastbury, and it shall be my business to see that the promise is
duly carried out."
"Then I am to remain at Deepley Walls!" said Janet. "I thought it
probable that my visit might be for a few weeks only, as my first one
was."
"From what Lady Chillington said, I imagine that the present arrangement
is to be a permanent one; but she gave no hint of the mode in which she
intended to make use of your services, and that she will make use of you
in some way, no one who knows her can doubt. And now, dear, I must say
good-bye for the present; good-bye and God bless you! You may look to
see me again within the week.
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