END OF THE THIRD BOOK.
BOOK IV.
"WANT PLACES."
CHAPTER I.
"ONE AND TWENTY."
Mattie's box was fetched away from Great Suffolk Street; the man who called for it brought a note to Ann Packet, which she found a friend to read for her later in the day. It did not furnish Ann Packet with her address—"When I am settled, Ann," she promised, quoting her own words on that morning of departure, "and I am very unsettled yet awhile."
Poor Ann Packet, who had looked forward to paying sundry flying visits to Mattie, and upon spending her holiday once a month with her, mourned over this evasion of Mattie's—"won't she trust even in me, or think of me a bit?" she said.
In Mattie's letter was enclosed a smaller one to Harriet Wesden, who understood the coup d'étât which had ensued by that time, and was agitated and unhappy concerning it. This was Mattie's letter to Harriet Wesden, in extenso:—