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_A dog may be a dog and something more; / A man beside a dog may be a bore! _
Shan't had gone back to her aunt. Diana was with her aunt and Marcus was alone. He felt the position to be an absurd one. Why should he be separated from two nieces because an aunt, on the other side, chose to behave in a jealous and absurd manner? It was quite possible, if he could see the aunt, that she might in talking tell him, quite unconsciously, if Diana were in love or not? It was ridiculous he shouldn't know, if he wished to know-and if she knew. With all her faults the aunt, no doubt, was fond of the children. Why shouldn't he go down and see her? So he got a Bradshaw and looked up trains-he would have gone by car, but he had told Diana that Tooke wasn't-what had he said? -strong enough to do the distance? He forgot what he had said, he had been vexed at the time-and he found it was possible to get to the aunt by twelve o'clock on any morning, so why not to-morrow? He should write to say he was coming-no, he would take her by surprise; see her as she really was.