The things we do!

It was a most curious coincidence their meeting; but altogether Lady Anne
thought it was best to say nothing about the circumstance to grandmamma.
I myself am puzzled to say which would have been the better course to
pursue under the circumstances; there were so many courses open. As they
had gone so far, should they go on farther together? Suppose they were
going to the same house at Brighton, oughtn't they to have gone in the
same carriage, with Kuhn and the maid of course? Suppose they met by
chance at the station, ought they to have travelled in separate
carriages? I ask any gentleman and father of a family, when he was
immensely smitten with his present wife, Mrs. Brown, if he had met her
travelling with her maid, in the mail, when there was a vacant place,
what would he himself have done?


CHAPTER XLII
Injured Innocence

From Clive Newcome, Esq., to Lieut.-Col. Newcome, C.B.
"Brighton, June 12, 18--.
"My Dearest Father,--As the weather was growing very hot at Naples, and
you wished I should come to England to see Mr.


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