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When Edith Dove and Miss Chain met on the morning after the storm, the weather had much improved, and they eagerly awaited Goodall's joining them at the breakfast table, to hear how the balloon had fared during the night. Their surprise was, therefore, very great when the squire came in and announced that they might look for Goodall in vain, at anyrate for the present, as he had ascended soon after sunrise, the atmosphere being so inviting that he preferred to dry his balloon in the sun's rays instead of retaining it in the wet park.
"And do you think, my dear father, that Mr Goodall would act in that way without any intimation of leaving us so suddenly? " said Edith, with some degree of feeling.