But I will come back in a very few
days, and take care of you. I am not going to let you do without me, now
that you have learnt to love me.'
'And will you be content to stay with me when your husband has gone to
London?'
'Yes, but I shall try to prevent his going very often, or staying very
long. I shall try to wind myself into his heart, so that there will be
an aching void there when we are parted.'
Lady Maulevrier proceeded to tell Mary all her arrangements. Three
handsome rooms in the east wing, a bedroom, dressing-room, and boudoir,
were to be made ready for the newly-married, couple. Fraeulein Mueller was
to be dismissed with a retiring pension, in order that Lady Mary and her
husband might feel themselves master and mistress in the lower part of
the house.
'And if your husband really means to devote himself to literature, he
can have no better workshop than the library I have put together,' said
Lady Maulevrier.
'And no better adviser and guide than you, dear grandmother, you who
have read everything that has been written worth reading during the last
half century.
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