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I must wait till I have earned some . '' `` Oh -- I can pay the journey for you , '' he said impatiently . And thus his suspense as to Sue 's welfare , and the possible marriage , moved him to dispatch for intelligence the last emissary he would have thought of choosing deliberately . Arabella went , Jude requesting her to be home not later than by the seven o'clock train . When she had gone he said : `` Why should I have charged her to be back by a particular time ! She 's nothing to me -- nor the other neither ! '' But having finished work he could not help going to the station to meet Arabella , dragged thither by feverish haste to get the news she might bring , and know the worst .