object to call on the Marquis here at some hour after two o'clock to-morrow.
"Scumberg's Hotel,
"Albemarle Street.
"29th June, 187—."
"But we go to-morrow," said Mary.
"Ah;—he means to-day. The note was written last night. I have been thinking about it, and I think I shall go."
"Have you written to him?"
"There is no need. A man who sends to me a summons to come to him so immediately as that has no right to expect an answer. He does not mean anything honest."
"Then why do you go?"
"I don't choose to appear to be afraid to meet him. Everything that I do is done above board. I rather imagine that he doesn't expect me to come; but I will not let him have to say that he had asked me and that I had refused. I shall go."
"Oh, papa, what will he say to you?"