ABSTRACT
When Mr. Gibson returned to Hollingford, he found an accumulation of business waiting for him, c and he was much inclined to complain of the consequences of the two days’ comparative holiday, which had resulted in overwork for the week to come. He had hardly time to speak to his family, he had so immediately to rush off to pressing cases of illness. But Molly managed to arrest him in the hall, standing there with his great coat held out ready for him to put on, but whispering as she did so –
