What's the good of pretending? There is nobody here
to hear us." Later on still she herself began. "I don't know how
much you've got, mamma; but whatever it is, we'd better divide it.
After what you did in Piccadilly we shall never get on together
again."
"There is not enough to divide," said Lady Augustus.
"If I had not you to go about with me I could get taken in pretty
nearly all the year round."
"Who'd take you?"
"Leave that to me. I would manage it, and you could join with some
other old person."
"We shall kill each other if we stay like this," said Arabella as
she took up her candle.
"You have pretty nearly killed me as it is," said the old woman as
the other shut the door.
CHAPTER IX
Changes at Bragton
Day after day old Mrs. Morton urged her purpose with her grandson
at Bragton, not quite directly as she had done at first, but by
gradual approaches and little soft attempts made in the midst of
all the tenderness which, as a nurse, she was able to display. It
soon came to pass that the intruders were banished from the house,
or almost banished. Mary's daily visits were discontinued
immediately after that last walk home with Reginald Morton which
has been described. Twice in the course of the next week she went
over, but on both occasions she did so early in the day, and
returned alone just as he was reaching the house.
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