It had been
arranged that she should stop for a few hours at the hotel with Miss
Lucy and Grey, and then go on with them to Allington. But their plans
were changed when they reached the wharf, for there they were met by a
messenger who had been sent from Mr. Burton Jerrold with the
intelligence that Grey's mother was very ill, and that Lucy must come at
once with Grey without stopping at her own home.
"I am sorry, for I wished to take you to your aunt myself," Lucy said
to Bessie, adding after a moment, "but I will give you a letter of
introduction, if you like."
"No, thank you," Bessie replied; "I would rather go to her alone, so
that if she is kind I shall know it is to me, and not to you, or because
she thinks it will please you."
"No danger of that," Grey said, laughingly; "she is a great stickler for
the naked truth, as she expresses it, and all the Aunt Lucys in the
world could not make her say she liked you if she did not. She is a
singular specimen, but she is sure to like you, and if she does not, go
to my Aunt Hannah; she would welcome you as a Godsend.
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