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`` Of course you can have the carriage and go over . We can breakfast at eight ; and if you can bring him back with you , do . I should tell him that he ought to come . '' Mrs. Grantly made no answer to this , knowing very well that she could not bring herself to go beyond the gentlest persuasion with her father , and on the next morning she was at the deanery by ten o'clock . Half-past ten was the hour at which the service began . Mrs. Baxter contrived to meet her before she saw her father , and begged her not to let it be known that any special tidings of Mr. Harding 's failing strength had been sent from the deanery to Plumstead . `` And how is my father ? ''