"I think not;--I am hardly as yet sufficiently
master of myself to know what I shall do."
"They will be much disappointed."
"And you?--what will you do?"
"I shall not go there. I am told that I ought to visit Loughlinter,
and I suppose I shall. Oswald has promised to go down with me before
the end of the month, but he will not remain above a day or two."
"And your father?"
"We shall leave him at Saulsby. I cannot look it all in the face
yet. It is not possible that I should remain all alone in that great
house. The people all around would hate and despise me. I think
Violet will come down with me, but of course she cannot remain there.
Oswald must go to Harrington because of the hunting. It has become
the business of his life. And she must go with him."
"You will return to Saulsby."
"I cannot say. They seem to think that I should live at
Loughlinter;--but I cannot live there alone."
He soon took leave of her, and did so with no warmer expressions of
regard on either side than have here been given.
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