"Because she doesn't see with my eyes, Harry. We need not say anything
more about it at present. It is so; and therefore I am to go to
Brussels. You have made this opportunity for yourself before I start.
Perhaps I have been foolish to be taken off my guard."
"Don't say that, Florence."
"I shall think so, unless you can be discreet. Harry, you will have to
wait. You will remember that we must wait; but I shall not change."
"Nor I,--nor I."
"I think not, because I trust you. Here is mamma, and now I must leave
you. But I shall tell mamma everything before I go to bed." Then Mrs.
Mountjoy came up and took Florence away, with a few words of most
disdainful greeting to Harry Annesley.
When Florence was gone Harry felt that as the sun and the moon and the
stars had all set, and as absolute darkness reigned through the rooms,
he might as well escape into the street, where there was no one but the
police to watch him, as he threw his hat up into the air in his
exultation. But before he did so he had to pass by Mrs. Armitage and
thank her for all her kindness; for he was aware how much she had done
for him in his present circumstances. "Oh, Mrs. Armitage, I am so
obliged to you! no fellow was ever so obliged to a friend before.
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