"You needn't have come, I suppose, unless you liked it. Is it because they are none of them coming up?"

"Exactly that, Dolly. What a wonderful young man you are for guessing!"

"Don't you feel ashamed of yourself?"

"No;—not a bit."

"Then I feel ashamed for you."

"Everybody comes here."

"No;—everybody does not come and stay here as you are doing. Everybody doesn't make themselves a part of the family. I have heard of nobody doing it except you. I thought you used to think so much of yourself."

"I think as much of myself as ever I did," said Georgiana, hardly able to restrain her tears.

"I can tell you nobody else will think much of you if you remain here. I could hardly believe it when Nidderdale told me."

"What did he say, Dolly?"