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On the next day , very early in the morning , there came a note from Mrs. Morton to Mr. Masters , the attorney . Could Mr. Masters come out on that day to Bragton and see Mrs. Morton . The note was very particular in saying that Mrs. Morton was to be the person seen . The messenger who waited for an answer , brought back word that Mr. Masters would be there at noon . The circumstance was one which agitated him considerably , as he had not been inside the house at Bragton since the days immediately following the death of the old Squire . As it happened , Lady Ushant was going to Bragton on the same day , and at the suggestion of Mr. Runciman , whose horses in the hunting season barely sufficed for his trade , the old lady and the lawyer went together . Not a word was said between them as to the cause which took either of them on their journey , but they spoke much of the days in which they had known each other , when the old Squire was alive , and Mr. Masters thanked Lady Ushant for her kindness to his daughter .