I think you leave Lady
Linlithgow after the first week in April, and it is quite necessary that
you should come to some fixed arrangement as to the future. If that were
all, there need not be any trouble, as you will come here, of course.
Indeed, this is your natural home, as we all feel; and I must say that we
have missed you most terribly since you went, not only for Cecilia and
Nina, but for all of us. And I don't know that I should write at all if it
wasn't for something else, that must be said sooner or later; because, as
to your coming here in April, that is so much a matter of course. The only
mistake was, that you should ever have gone away. So we shall expect you
here on whatever day you may arrange with Lady Linlithgow as to leaving
her." (The poor, dear lady went on repeating her affectionate invitation,
because of the difficulty she encountered in finding words with which to
give the cruel counsel which she thought that it was her duty to offer.)
"And now, dearest Lucy, I must say what I believe to be the truth about
Mr. Greystock. I think that you should teach yourself to forget him, or at
any rate, that you should teach yourself to forget the offer which he made
to you last autumn.
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