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Rh how happy you are going to be—it is the most beautiful place in the world!"

"Not quite," replied Francesca, smiling in spite of herself. "But we must make haste home, or what will Charles Aubyn say when he finds your haunted chamber lonely?"

"I wonder what he will do!" replied Lucy, who had a true girl's pleasure in talking of her lover.

And this wonder, together with anticipations for Francesca, in which Francesca could not join, enabled them to reach home without finding the path too long.