“Where⁠—may I ask?⁠—is Miss Fairfax going?”

“To a Mrs. Smallridge⁠—charming woman⁠—most superior⁠—to have the charge of her three little girls⁠—delightful children. Impossible that any situation could be more replete with comfort; if we except, perhaps, Mrs. Suckling’s own family, and Mrs. Bragge’s; but Mrs. Smallridge is intimate with both, and in the very same neighbourhood:⁠—lives only four miles from Maple Grove. Jane will be only four miles from Maple Grove.”

“ Mrs. Elton, I suppose, has been the person to whom Miss Fairfax owes⁠—”