"For pleasure," said Ellen's tongue and her opening eyes at the same time.
"You may go."
With eager delight Ellen got ready, and was hastening along the hall to the door, when she met Mr. Lindsay.
"Where are you going?"
"To church, Sir."
"Alone! what do you want to go for! No, no, I shan't let you. Come in here I want you with me; you have been once to-day already, haven't you? You do not want to go again?"
"I do indeed, Sir, very much," said Ellen, as she reluctantly followed him into the library, "if you have no objection. You know I have not seen Edinburgh yet."
"Edinburgh! that's true, so you haven't," said he, looking at her discomfited face. "Well, go, if you want to go so much."
Ellen got as far as the hall door, no further; she rushed back to the library.
"I did not say right when I said that," she burst forth; "that was not the reason I wanted to go. I will stay, if you wish me, Sir."