'And, whenever you are the least unhappy, you will write to us?'
'I shall never be unhappy about anything but being away from you. As for the rest, I will make people respect me; I know what I am.'
'Because if they do not behave well to you, mamma could ask Dr. Masham to go and see you, and they will attend to him; and I would ask him too. I wonder,' she continued after a moment's pause, 'if you have everything you want. I am quite sure the instant you are gone, we shall remember something you ought to have; and then I shall be quite brokenhearted.'
'I have got everything.'
'You said you wanted a large knife.'
'Yes! but I am going to buy one in London. Dr. Masham says he will take me to a place where the finest knives in the world are to be bought. It is a great thing to go to London with Dr. Masham.'
'I have never written your name in your Bible and Prayer-book. I will do it this evening.'
'Lady Annabel is to write it in the Bible, and you are to write it in the Prayer-book.'
'You are to write to us from London by Dr. Masham, if only a line.'
'I shall not fail.'