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'Very likely not,' said Arabella. 'Ladies of that sort very often don't
go to church. I dare say you'll find that she'll never stir out of the
place at all, and that not a soul in Nuncombe will ever see her except
the gardener. It is such a thing for a woman to be separated from her
husband! Don't you think so, Mr Gibson?'
'Of course it is,' said he, with a shake of his head, which was
intended to imply that the censure of the church must of course attend
any sundering of those whom the church had bound together; but which
implied also by the absence from it of any intense clerical severity,
that as the separated wife was allowed to live with so very respectable
a lady as Mrs Stanbury, there must probably be some mitigating
circumstances attending this special separation.
'I wonder what he is like?' said Camilla, after a pause.
'Who?' asked Arabella.
'The gentleman,' said Camilla.
'What gentleman?' demanded Arabella.
'I don't mean Mr Trevelyan,' said Camilla.
'I don't believe there really is eh is there?' said Mr Gibson, very
timidly.


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