"Then I will have the plans drawn, and estimates made, and you shall go to
your own home, Mary, as soon as possible. The people are looking forward
to your return. You will be happier among them. We can return to Glasgow
at once; I shall be very glad to do so; and you can go to Drumloch in the
spring."
The proposal pleased Mary. She wanted to get away from Meriton. She did
not like being in the same house with those numerous similitudes of the
Fife girl. The garden in which Allan had made her that pretence of an
offer, the parlor in which she had given way to such a petulant,
disagreeable temper, were full of mortifying remembrances. She wanted to
turn over a new leaf of life, to cross the past one, and to cancel forever
the hopes there credited.