"Well!"
"And he knows also how his lordship is behaving to me. Of course he
thinks that I have deserved it. Of course I have deserved it. We
have nothing to do now but to go back to London."
"You have brought me here all the way for that"
"Only for that! As the man was dying I thought that I would be
honest just for once. Now. that I have told him I don't believe
that he will die. He does not look to be so very ill."
"And you have thrown away that chance!"
"Altogether. You didn't like Bragton you know, and therefore it
can't matter to you."
"Like it!"
"To be sure you would have got rid of me had I gone to Patagonia.
But he will not go to Patagonia now even if he gets well; and so
there was nothing to be gained. The carriage is to be here at two
to take us to the station and you may as well let Judith come and
put the things up."
Just before they took their departure Lady Ushant came to Arabella
saying that Mr. Morton wanted to speak one other word to her before
she went. So she returned to the room and was again left alone at
the man's bedside. "Arabella," he said, "I thought that I would
tell you that I have forgiven everything."
"How can you have forgiven me? There are things which a man cannot
forgive."
"Give me your hand,"' he said,--and she gave him her hand. "I do
forgive it all.
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