The Small House at Allington

by Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER XLIX.

PREPARATIONS FOR GOING.

amma, read that letter."

It was Mrs. Dale's eldest daughter who spoke to her, and they were alone together in the parlour at the Small House. Mrs. Dale took the letter and read it very carefully. She then put it back into its envelope and returned it to Bell.

"It is, at any rate, a good letter, and, as I believe, tells the truth."

"I think it tells a little more than the truth, mamma. As you say, it is a well-written letter. He always writes well when he is in earnest. But yet—"

"Yet what, my dear?"

"There is more head than heart in it."