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I am so glad , '' she said . `` It seemed so shocking that you should refuse to join us . And mind and be early , Maurice ; for I shall want to explain it all . We are to meet , you know , at Clifton Gate at one o'clock , but do you be a little before that , and we shall be there . '' Maurice Cumming resolved within his own breast as he rode back to Spanish Town , that if Marian behaved to him all that day at the picnic as she had done this day at Shandy Hall , he would ask her to be his wife before he left her . And Miss Jack also was to be at the picnic . `` There is no need of going early , '' said she , when her nephew made a fuss about the starting .