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Then he had taken his leave of them all and made his social
tentatives. Did they ever come to London? When they did they must
let his people know. He would so like them to know his mother, Lady
Marayne. And so on with much gratitude.
Amanda had said that she and the dogs would come with him up the
hill, she had said it exactly as a boy might have said it, she had
brought him up to the corner of Up Park and had sat down there on a
heap of stones and watched him until he was out of sight, waving to
him when he looked back. "Come back again," she had cried.
In Chichester he found a little green-bound REPUBLIC in a second-
hand book-shop near the Cathedral, but there was no copy of the LAWS
to be found in the place. Then he was taken with the brilliant idea
of sleeping the night in Chichester and going back next day via
Harting to Petersfield station and London. He carried out this
scheme and got to South Harting neatly about four o'clock in the
afternoon. He found Mrs. Wilder and Mrs. Morris and Amanda and the
dogs entertaining Mr.


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