Grace, bitterly, "she is better employed than to come
near me. She is not a self-sacrificing fool like me. When I had the
advantage, I gave it up; now she has got it, she uses it without mercy,
decency, or gratitude. And that is the way to love. Oh! if my turn could
but come again. But it never will."

Having arrived at this conclusion, she lay on the couch in her own room,
and was thoroughly miserable.

She came down to dinner, and managed to take a share in the
conversation, but was very languid; and Coventry detected that she had
been crying.

After dinner, Knight brought in a verbal message from Jael to Mr. Raby,
to the effect that the young gentleman was stiff and sore, and she had
sent into Hillsborough for Dr. Amboyne.

"Quite right of her," said the squire. "You needn't look so alarmed,
Grace; there are no bones broken; and he is in capital hands: he
couldn't have a tenderer nurse than that great strapping lass, nor a
better doctor than my friend and maniac, Amboyne."

Next morning, soon after breakfast, Raby addressed his guests as
follows:--"I was obliged to go into Hillsborough yesterday, and postpone
the purification of that sacred building. But I set a watch on it; and
this day I devote to a pious purpose; I'm going to un-Little the church
of my forefathers; and you can come with me, if you choose." This
invitation, however, was given in a tone so gloomy, and so little
cordial, that Coventry, courtier-like, said in reply, he felt it would
be a painful sight to his host, and the fewer witnesses the better. Raby
nodded assent, and seemed pleased. Not so Miss Carden. She said: "If
that is your feeling, you had better stay at home. I shall go. I have
something to tell Mr. Raby when we get there; and I'm vain enough
to think it will make him not quite so angry about the poor dear old
church."

"Then come, by all means," said Raby; "for I'm angry enough at present."

Before they got half way to the church, they were hailed from behind:
and turning round, saw the burly figure of Dr. Amboyne coming after
them.

They waited for him, and he came up with them. He had heard the whole
business from Little, and was warm in the praises of his patient.

To a dry inquiry from Raby, whether he approved of his patient
desecrating a church, he said, with delicious coolness, he thought there
was not much harm in that, the church not being used for divine service.

At this, Raby uttered an inarticulate but savage gro