"Yes, to go with me to Moor House. Diana and Mary will be at home in a week, and I want to have everything in order against their arrival."

     "I understand. I thought you were for flying off on some excursion. It is better so: Hannah will go with you."

     "Tell her to be ready by to-morrow then; and here is the schoolroom key: I will give you the key of my cottage in the morning."

     He took it. "You give it up very gleefully," said he; "I don't quite understand your light-heartedness, because I cannot tell what employment you propose to yourself as a substitute for the one you are relinquishing. What aim, what purpose, what ambition in life have you now?"