I've seen you."
"How little you make of these terrible journeys," she felt the
poverty of her presently replying.
"If you're afraid I'm knocked up-in any such way as that-you may
be at your ease about it." He turned away, this time in earnest, and
no handshake, no sign of parting, was exchanged between them. At the
door he stopped with his hand on the knob. "I shall leave Florence
to-morrow," he said without a quaver.
"I'm delighted to hear it!" she answered passionately. Five
minutes after he had gone out she burst into tears.
CHAPTER 33
Her fit of weeping, however, was soon smothered, and the signs of it
had vanished when, an hour later, she broke the news to her aunt. I
use this expression because she had been sure Mrs. Touchett would
not be pleased; Isabel had only waited to tell her till she had seen
Mr.
Goodwood. She had an odd impression that it would not be
honourable to make the fact public before she should have heard what
Mr. Goodwood would say about it. He had said rather less than she
expected, and she now had a somewhat angry sense of having lost
time. But she would lose no more; she waited till Mrs.
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