‘He seemed so much better for the exertion he made yesterday,’ resumed Lord Montfort. ‘I think it would do him good to be more with us.’
‘He seems to like to be alone,’ said Katherine.
‘I wonder at that,’ said Lord Montfort; ‘I cannot conceive a happier life than we all lead.’
‘You have cause to be happy, and Ferdinand has not,’ said Miss Grandison, calmly.
‘I should have thought that he had very great cause,’ said Lord Montfort, enquiringly.
‘No person in the world is so unhappy as Ferdinand,’ said Katherine.
‘But cannot we cure his unhappiness?’ said his lordship. ‘We are his friends; it seems to me, with such friends as Miss Grandison and Miss Temple one ought never to be unhappy.’
‘Miss Temple can scarcely be called a friend of Ferdinand,’ said Katherine.
‘Indeed, a very warm one, I assure you.’
‘Ah, that is your influence.’