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 Selina and Elinor, following her into the ante-room, asked how she meant to travel?

She had one way only in her power; she must walk.

"Walk? exclaimed Harleigh, joining them, "in such a season? And by such roads?"

"Walk?" cried Ireton, advancing also, "eight miles? In December?"

"And why not, gentlemen?" called out Mrs. Maple, "How would you have such a body as that go, if she must not walk? What else has she got her feet for?"

"Are you sure," said Ireton, "that you know the way?"

"I was never in this part of the world till now."

"Ha! Ha! pleasant enough! And what are you to do about money? Did you ever find that purse of your's that you—lost, I think, at Dover?"

"Never!"

"Better and better!" cried Ireton,