'Yes, I had been hearing an amusing story: it made me laugh and cry at once.'
'Who speaks untruth now?'
'Am I to ask your leave and to curtsey before I am permitted to shed a tear?'
'Oh, no! we have nothing to do with each other.'
'Nothing at all. I desire you to keep out of my way, but you are continually running against me or running after me. Why do you do it? Do you suppose that I carry about with me your father's gold?'
'Engage the Seaton crier to march before you wherever you go, and ring his bell and call—Clear the way, fall on your faces, or hide. Miss Holwood comes.'
She burst into tears again.
With an effort she mastered her emotion.
'If you will go and bray through the country that you have seen me cry, say the reason why. I have been crying because I am going away, going among strangers.'
'You are?'