"How can I help it, Georgey? It's your own doing. Of course you must have known that you were going to separate yourself from us."
On the next morning there came a dispatch from Mr. Longestaffe,--of what nature Georgey did not know as it was addressed to Lady Pomona. But one enclosure she was allowed to see. "Mamma," said Sophy, "thinks you ought to know how Dolly feels about it." And then a letter from Dolly to his father was put into Georgey's hands. The letter was as follows:--
MY DEAR FATHER,--

"How can I help it, Georgey? It's your own doing."
On the next morning there came a letter from Mr. Longestaffe, addressed to Lady Pomona. It contained an enclosure she was allowed to see. It was a letter from Dolly, as follows:
My dear Father,-
