"Mary will be delighted."
"I did not believe that I should be able to come so soon when I wrote yesterday."
"I hope you are going to tell her that you have thought better of my little plan."
"Well;—no; I don't think I can do that. I think she must come to me first, sir."
"But where!"
"I have not yet quite made up my mind. Of course there is a difficulty. My brother's conduct has been so very strange."
"Your brother is a madman, George."
"It is very easy to say so, but that does not make it any better. Though he be ever so mad the house is his own. If he chooses to turn me out of it he can. I have told Mr. Knox that I would leave it within a month,—for my mother's sake; but that as I had gone there at his express instance, I could not move sooner. I think I was justified in that."
"I don't see why you should go at all."
"He would let the place."