“Very much.”
“I should be sorry indeed, if it were. We were always good friends;and now we are better.”
She replied in the affirmative.
“That you were gone into the army,and she was afraid had―not turned out well.At such a distance as that,you know,things are strangely misrepresented.”
“Did you go by the village of Kympton?”
She held out her hand;he kissed it with affectionate gallantry, though he hardly knew how to look,and they entered the house.
“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.”
“You have.Yes,there was something in that;I told you so from the first,you may remember.”
“I have heard from authority, which I thought as good, that it was left you conditionally only,and at the will of the present patron.”
“I was surprised to see Darcy in town last month.We passed each other several times.I wonder what he can be doing there.”
“Yes,she did.”