‘Yes, nothing is wanting but that we could remain here.’
‘Never mind! We will make a better Wrapworth for one another, free from the stains of my Castle Blanch errors and sorrows! I am even glad of the delay. I want a little time to be good with poor dear Honor, now that I have heart and spirit to be good.’
‘And I grudge every week to her! I declare, Cilla, you make me wish evil to my neighbour.’
‘Then follow my example, and be content with this present gladness.’
‘Ha! ha! I wonder what they’ll say at Southminster. Didn’t I row them for using you so abominably? I have not been near them since!’
‘More shame for you! Sarah is my best correspondent, and no one ever did me so much good as Mrs. Prendergast.’
‘I didn’t ask her to do you good!’
‘You ought to have done so then; for I should not be the happy woman I am now if she had not done me good because she could not help it! I hope they won’t take it to heart.’
‘I hope they will!’
‘What?’