"Look here!" said Burmistone, "that's a new idea, isn't it?"
"No, an old one; but I have been putting the thing off from day to day. By Jove! I did not think it likely that I should put it off, the day I landed here."
And he laughed rather uneasily.
CHAPTER XXIII. — "MAY I GO?"
The very day after this, Octavia opened the fourth trunk. She had had it brought down from the garret, when there came a summons on the door, and Lucia Gaston appeared.
Lucia was very pale; and her large, soft eyes wore a decidedly frightened look. She seemed to have walked fast, and was out of breath. Evidently something had happened.
"Octavia," she said, "Mr. Dugald Binnie is at Oldclough."