Charles always goes off
among his sheep on that day, and I shut myself up with a pile of books
in a little room. You will have to be imprisoned with me. I do so long
to peep at the visitors.'
'And I dare say they want to peep at you.'
'I proposed at first to shew them round myself, but Charles wouldn't let
me.'
'It would have broken Mrs Crutch's heart.'
'That's what Charles said. He thinks that Mrs Crutch tells them that
I'm locked up somewhere, and that that gives a zest to the search. Some
people from Nottingham once did break into old Lady Peterborough's
room, and the shew was stopped for a year. There was such a row about
it! It prevented Charles coming up for the county. But he wouldn't have
got in; and therefore it was lucky, and saved money.'
By this time Nora was quite at her ease; but still there was before her
the other difficulty, of meeting Lord Peterborough. They were driven
out of the avenue, and round to the right, and through the iron gate,
and up to the huge front door.
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