That day matters resumed their normal condition in the Dombey family;
Jacob breathed freely now that his child had returned to the country
of her adoption, and his wife and family were happy because of his
improved spirits and appearance. Charles had apparently settled down
to business as usual, and Mesdames Trotter and Dombey drove out
together as of old. In a few weeks, however, Charles asked his
father permission to go for his holidays; a friend having invited
him to spend a few weeks at Nahant an island near Boston. There
being nothing to keep him in Montreal he had no difficulty in
procuring consent, and he departed, taking fishing tackle enough to
have supplied the whole Atlantic coast for a season. When his father
learned the real object of his visit to Boston, he raved like a
madman; he came to see me, and told me the whole story, most of
which I had learnt before from other sources and he persuaded me to
go to Boston and to take on my self the painful duty of informing
Miss Montague who and what she really was, and why it was impossible
that she could ever marry Charles Dombey. The poor girl was almost
heart-broken, for she had learnt to love her stepbrother dearly, and
now she would have to be separated from him entirely.
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