'What security have we that he
will ever marry her, if she does stay?' he asked the next morning. Lady
Rowley had no doubt on this score, and protested that her opposition to
Hugh Stanbury arose simply from his want of income. 'I should never be
justified,' said Sir Marmaduke, 'if I were to go and leave my girl as
it were in the hands of a penny-a-liner.' The letter, in the end, was
not sent; and Nora and her father hardly spoke to each other as they
made their journey back to Florence together.
Emily Trevelyan, before the arrival of that letter from her husband,
had determined that she would not leave Italy. It had been her purpose
to remain somewhere in the neighbourhood of her husband and child; and
to overcome her difficulties or be overcome by them, as circumstances
might direct. Now her plans were again changed or, rather, she was now
without a plan. She could form no plan till she should again see Mr
Glascock. Should her child be restored to her, would it not be her duty
to remain near her husband? All this made Nora's line of conduct the
more difficult for her.
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