Most of us find shadows peeping over our shoulders of
what we would like to be."
Arabella found her employer extremely trying during the Saturday and
Sunday, and was almost in tears when she wrote to her mother.
Mr. Derringham has plainly determined not to be ensnared yet. If this
did not render M. E. so difficult to please, the situation would be
very instructive to watch. And I am not even now certain whether he
will escape eventually, because her whole pride in herself is roused
and she will stick at nothing. I have a shrewd suspicion as to what
has caused the change in his feelings and intentions towards M. E.,
but I have not imparted my ideas to her, since doing so might do no
good, and would in some way certainly injure an innocent person. As
yet I believe she is unaware of this person's existence. We have done
everything we can for Mr. Derringham with the most erudite
conversation. I have been up half of the night ascertaining facts
upon all sorts of classical subjects, as that seems to be more than
ever the bent of his mind in these last two visits.
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