"You are going to-morrow, and if I did not speak to you now I should have no other opportunity. Glencora seems to be very much attached to you, and we all thought it so good a thing that she should have such a friend."
"I hope you have not all changed your minds," said Alice, with a faint smile, thinking as she spoke that the "all" must have been specially intended to include the master of the house.
"Oh, no;--by no means. I did not mean that. My cousin, Mr. Palliser, I mean, liked you so much when you came."
"And he does not like me quite so much now, because I went out in the moonlight with his wife. Isn't that it?"

"You are going tomorrow, and if I did not speak to you now I should have no other opportunity. Glencora seems to be very much attached to you, and we all thought it so good a thing that she should have such a friend."
"I hope you have not changed your minds," said Alice, with a faint smile.
"Oh, no. I did not mean that. My cousin, Mr. Palliser, I mean, liked you so much when you came."
"And he does not like me quite so much now, because I went out in the moonlight with his wife. Isn't that it?"
