7. FROM THE TWENTY-SECOND TO THE
TWENTY-SEVENTH OF NOVEMBERBut the next morning Manston found that he had been forgetful of
another matter, in naming the following Monday to his wife for the
journey.
The fact was this. A letter had just come, reminding him that he
had left the whole of the succeeding week open for an important
business engagement with a neighbouring land-agent, at that
gentleman's residence thirteen miles off. The particular day he had
suggested to his wife, had, in the interim, been appropriated by
his correspondent. The meeting could not now be put off.
So he wrote again to his wife, stating that business, which
could not be postponed, called him away from home on Monday, and
would entirely prevent him coming all the way to fetch her on
Sunday night as he ha
