Chapter 62Sir Thomas was to return in November, and his eldest son had a duty to call him home earlier. The approach of September brought messages from Mr. Schmidt, first in a letter to the gamekeeper and then in a letter to Edmund; and at the end of August he himself arrived to be cheerful, pleasant and chivalrous again, depending on the opportunity or Miss Dorset demanded; to talk about races and Weymouth and parties and friends that she might have listened to with some interest six weeks earlier, and to give her overall, through the power of an actual comparison, the fullest conviction that she prefers his younger brother.
It was very annoying, and she felt sorry from the bottom of her heart; but so it was; and far from marrying the elder, she did not want to attract him even beyond wh
