to forgotten to leave any message for the ladies of Rosings.
"But," he added, "you will of course wish to have your humble respects delivered to them, with your grateful thanks for their kindness to you while you have been here."
Elizabeth made no objection;—the door was then allowed to be shut, and the carriage drove off.
"Good gracious!" cried Maria, after a few minutes silence, "it seems but a day or two since we first came!—and yet how many things have happened!"
"A great many indeed," said her companion, with a sigh. "We have dined nine times at Rosings, besides drinking tea there twice!—How much I shall have to tell!
Elizabeth privately added, "and how much I shall have to conceal."
Their journey was performed without much conversation, or any alarm; and
