present purpose to remain at Matching through a portion of the
summer. What could he do to make a girl happy? What comfort would
there be in his companionship?

'I suppose she ought to go somewhere,' he said.

'I had not thought of it,' said Mrs Finn.

'I understood you to say,' replied the Duke, almost angrily, 'that
she ought to go someone who would take care of her.'

'I was thinking of some friend coming to her.'

'Who would come? Who is there that I could possibly ask? You will
not stay.'

'I certainly would stay, if it were for her good. I was thinking,
Duke, that perhaps you might ask the Greys to come to you.'

'They would not come,' he said, after a pause.

'When she was told that it was for her sake, she would come, I
think.'

Then there was another pause. 'I could not ask them,' he said;
'for his sake I could not have it put to her in that way. Perhaps
Mary had better go to Lady Cantrip. Perhaps I had better be alone
for a time. I do not think that I am fit to have any human being
with me in my sorrow.'