“I do not recollect that we did.”
“Undoubtedly.Did you see him while you were at Lambton?I thought I understood from the Gardiners that you had.”
“True.Are the others coming out?”
“You certainly do,”she replied with a smile;“but it does not follow that the interruption must be unwelcome.”
“You did! and it was not wholly without foundation.You may remember what I told you on that point,when first we talked of it.”
“Yes,she did.”
“I mention it,because it is the living which I ought to have had. A most delightful place!―Excellent Parsonage House! It would have suited me in every respect.”
“And what did she say?”
“Yes;he introduced us to his sister.”
“Come,Mr.Wickham,we are brother and sister,you know.Do not let us quarrel about the past. In future, I hope we shall be always of one mind.”
“I should be sorry indeed, if it were. We were always good friends;and now we are better.”
“I do not know.Mrs.Bennet and Lydia are going in the carriage to Meryton.And so, my dear sister, I find, from our uncle and aunt,that you have actually seen Pemberley.”
“I have heard,indeed,that she is uncommonly improved within this year or two.When I last saw her,she was not very promising. I am very glad you liked her.I hope she will turn out well.”
They were now almost at the door of the house, for she had walked fast to get rid of him;and unwilling,for her sister's sake, to provoke him, she only said in reply, with a good-humoured smile: