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`` Not because I ask her . '' `` She does n't come without you want her -- '' `` Well , what if I _ do _ want her -- '' he replied . `` Why , nothing , if it was sensible or reasonable . But to go trapseing up there miles and miles in the mud , coming home at midnight , and got to go to Nottingham in the morning -- '' `` If I had n't , you 'd be just the same . '' `` Yes , I should , because there 's no sense in it . Is she so fascinating that you must follow her all that way ? '' Mrs. Morel was bitterly sarcastic .