“I suppose you have to let him go his own way?”
“Oh! yes, sir.”
“I will send the governess cart up for him to-morrow morning,” said Challis, “at ten o’clock. That is, of course, if you have no objection to his coming.”
“’E said ’e’d coom, sir,” replied Ellen Mary. Her tone implied that there was no appeal possible against her son’s statement of his wishes.
V
“His methods do not lack terseness,” remarked Lewes, when he and Challis were out of earshot of the cottage.
“His methods and manners are damnable,” said Challis, “but——”
“You were going to say?” prompted Lewes.
“Well, what is your opinion?”