ate, mamma is to see him to-morrow,
and after that I suppose--I'm sure I don't know--but I suppose he'll
come to the rectory as he used to do."

"How happy you must be," said Florence, kissing her. To this Fanny made
some unintelligible demur. It was undoubtedly possible that, under the
altered circumstances of the case, so strange a being as Mr. Saul might
have changed his mind.

There was a great trial awaiting Florence Burton. She had to be taken up
to call on the ladies at the great house--on the two widowed ladies who
were still remaining there when she came to Clavering. It was only on
the day before her arrival that Harry had seen Lady Ongar. He had
thought much of the matter before he went across to the house, doubting
whether it would not be better to let Julia go without troubling her
with a further interview. But he had not then seen even Lady Clavering
since the tidings of her bereavement had come, and he felt that it would
not be well that he should let his cousin's widow leave Clavering
without offering her his sympathy. And it might be better, also, that he
should see Julia once again, if only that he might show himself capable
of meeting her without the exhibition of any peculiar emotion. He went,
therefore, to the house, and having inquired for Lady Clavering, saw
both the sisters together. He seen found that the presence of the
younger one was a relief to him. Lady Clavering was so sad, and so
peevish in her sadness--so broken-spirited, so far as yet from
recognizing the great enfranchisement that had come to her, that with
her alone he would have found himself almost unable to express the
sympathy which he felt. But with Lady Ongar he had no difficulty. Lady
Ongar, her sister being with them in the room, talked to him easily, as
though there had never been anything between them to make conversation
difficult. That all words between them should, on such an occasion as
this, be sad, was a matter of course; but it seemed to Harry that Julia
had freed herself from all the effects of that feeling which had existed
between them, and that it would become him to do this as effectually as
she had done it. Such an idea, at least, was in his mind for a moment;
but when he left her she spoke one word which dispelled it. "Harry," she
said, "you must ask Miss Burton to come across and see me. I hear that
she is to be at the rectory to-morrow." Harry of course said that he
would send her. "She will understand why I