He came down here, and took The Grange, for
change of scene and solitude--of all things the worst for a man in grief--a
morbid whim, as he is beginning to find out; for he is very glad to stay
here, and confesses that he is much better since he came. His letters are
still addressed to him as Mr. Carysbroke; for he fancied if his rank were
known, that the county people would have been calling upon him, and so he
would have found himself soon involved in a tiresome round of dinners, and
must have gone somewhere else. You saw him, Milly, at Bartram, before Maud
came?'
Yes, she had, when he called there to see her father.
'He thought, as he had accepted the trusteeship, that he could hardly,
residing so near, omit to visit Silas. He was very much struck and
interested by him, and he has a better opinion of him--you are not angry,
Milly--than some ill-natured people I could name; and he says that the
cutting down of the trees will turn out to have been a mere slip. But these
slips don't occur with clever men in other things; and some persons have
a way of always making them in their own favour.
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