"Did you? And I too. But though I could not see you, I felt that you were on board the ship we met."
"I was sitting on deck, longing for a telescope. Well, it is all right now. Did you bring Mr. Leigh home?"
"Yes; he is at Hunsdon, safe and well."
"Hunsdon is your house now, is not it? Tell me what it is like?"
"A great square place, with a huge white portico in front—very ugly, to tell the truth; but you would like the park, Lucia, and the trees."
"It must be very grand. Does it feel very nice to be rich?"
"That depends on circumstances. But now do you think you are to ask all the questions and answer none?"
"No, indeed. There is one answer."
"Do you like Paris?"
"Well enough. It is very lonely here without anybody."