"No; then I asked Kate, and Kate told me when you were going. Yes; I know. Kate has been wrong, hasn't she? Kate was cautioned, no doubt, to say nothing about your comings and goings to so inconsiderable a person as myself. But you must not be down upon Kate. She never mentioned it till I showed by my question to her that I knew all about your journey to Matching. I own I do not understand why it should be necessary to keep me so much in the dark."
Alice felt that she was blushing. The caution had been given to Kate because Kate still transgressed in her letters, by saying little words about her brother. And Alice did not even now believe Kate to have been false to her; but she saw that she herself had been imprudent.

"No; then I asked Kate, and Kate told me. Yes; I know. Kate has been wrong, hasn't she? But she never mentioned it till I told her that I knew all about your journey to Matching. I do not understand why it should be necessary to keep me so much in the dark."
Alice felt that she was blushing.
