And in the end he, in despair, copied over the first and decided to send it.
“It is merely catching at a straw,” he said to himself. “Far better give up every hope of her at once, but I cannot.”
He left Romary the following afternoon, but his note was not sent to Hathercourt Rectory till late that evening.
Chapter Twelve.
“Have I made it worse?”
“Give me good fortune, I could strike him dead,
For this discomfort he hath done the house!”
Elaine.
So it was not really for from “this time to-morrow” that Lilias had so confidently anticipated, when Mrs Western opened the envelope, addressed to her by Captain Beverley, and read its contents.
“What can it mean? I cannot understand,” she said to herself, tremulously, for she was alone at the time. Then a second thought struck her, and the tremulousness gave place to hot indignation.