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Although Lord Mulgrave had given Miss Usher a cordial invitation to accompany his daughter to London, that prudent lady excused herself with the plea of one or two engagements in Dublin. She wished to give the father and daughter an opportunity of becoming better acquainted before they joined the family circle. What could be a better occasion than a sea voyage and a railway journey?
"I shall miss you awfully," sobbed her companion of the last six weeks. "I don't know what in the living earth I'll do, all alone. Of course, I have his -- his lordship -- father; but I mean among the women. And I've a notion they are all going to hate me, so they will."