"That is the most singular resolution that a man of sense like you ever came to."
"I can't help it, squire; it is my resolution."
"But what has Miss Dunstable's fortune to do with it?"
"I cannot say that it has anything; but, in this matter, I will not interfere."
The squire went on for some time, but it was all to no purpose; and at last he left the house, considerably in dudgeon. The only conclusion to which he could come was, that Dr Thorne had thought the chance on his niece's behalf too good to be thrown away, and had, therefore, resolved to act in this very singular way.
"I would not have believed it of him, though all Barsetshire had told me," he said to himself as he entered the great gates; and he went on repeating the same words till he found himself in his own room. "No, not if all Barsetshire had told me!"
He did not, however, communicate the ill result of his visit to the Lady Arabella.