"He'll have to pay for it, and that pretty smart," said Runciman.
"I never heard of such a foolish thing in all my life. What the
dickens is it to him? One can understand Bearside, and Scrobby too.
When a fellow has something to get, one does understand it. But why
an old fellow like that should come down from the moon to pay ever
so much money for such a man as Goarly, is what I don't
understand."
"Notoriety," said the doctor.
"He evidently don't know that Nickem has got round Goarly," said
the landlord.
CHAPTER III
At Cheltenham
The month at Cheltenham was passed very quietly and would have been
a very happy month with Mary Masters but that there grew upon her
from day to day increasing fears of what she would have to undergo
when she returned to Dillsborough. At the moment when she was
hesitating with Larry Twentyman, when she begged him to wait six
months and then at last promised to give him an answer at the end
of two, she had worked herself up to think that it might possibly
be her duty to accept her lover for the sake of her family. At any
rate she had at that moment thought that the question of duty ought
to be further considered, and therefore she had vacillated. When
the two months' delay was accorded to her, and within that period
the privilege of a long absence from Dillsborough, she put the
trouble aside for a while with the common feeling that the chapter
of accidents might do something for her.
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