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Woodbourne, making light of her anxiety for her own children,
had done all that the most affectionate mother could have done for
him, and had shewn more energy than almost anyone had believed her to
possess, comforting Sir Edward with hopes and cheerful looks,
soothing the boy's waywardness, and bearing with his fretfulness in
his recovery, as none but a mother, or a friend as gentle as Mrs.
Woodbourne, could have done. Still, much as she loved Mrs.
Woodbourne for her own sake, Lady Merton could not help missing
Katherine, her first play-fellow, the bright friend of her youth, her
sister-in-law; Mrs. Woodbourne, a shy timid person, many years
younger, felt that such must be the case, and always feared that she
was thinking that the girls would have been in better order under
their own mother; so that the two ladies were never quite at their
ease when alone together.
In the mean time, Elizabeth, quite unconscious that Dora was intended
to act as a clog round her neck, to keep her from straying too far,
was mounting the hill, the merriest of the merry party.


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