hope you will come to me. Can you, when you return from this lord's, come to Fullerton?”

“It will not be in my power, Catherine.”

“Come when you can, then.”

Eleanor made no answer; and Catherine's thoughts recurring to something more directly interesting, she added, thinking aloud, “Monday — so soon as Monday; and you all go. Well, I am certain of — I shall be able to take leave, however.

I need not go till just before you do, you know. Do not be distressed, Eleanor, I can go on Monday very well. My father and mother's having no notice of it is of very little consequence. The general will send a servant with me, I dare say, half the way — and then I shall soon be at Salisbury, and then I am only nine miles from home.”