"I shall come and see you again to-morrow, uncle, may I not? I saw your
room to-day, sir, and your housekeeper; such a nice old lady, and your
black gown. And you shall put it on to-morrow, and walk with me, and show
me the beautiful old buildings of that old hospital. And I shall come and
make tea for you, the housekeeper says I may. Will you come down with me
to my carriage? No, Mr. Pendennis must come;" and she quitted the room,
beckoning me after her. "You will speak to Clive now, won't you?" she
said, "and come to me this evening, and tell me all before you go to
bed?" I went back, anxious in truth to the messenger of good tidings to
my dear old friends.
Brief as my absence had been, Mrs. Mackenzie had taken advantage of that
moment again to outrage Clive and his father, and to announce that Rosa
might go to see this Miss Newcome, whom people respected because she was
rich, but whom she would never visit; no, never! "An insolent, proud,
impertinent thing! Does she take me for a housemaid?" Mrs.
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