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As for Bulstrode — when Will was gone he suffered a violent reaction , and wept like a woman . It was the first time he had encountered an open expression of scorn from any man higher than Raffles ; and with that scorn hurrying like venom through his system , there was no sensibility left to consolations . But the relief of weeping had to be checked . His wife and daughters soon came home from hearing the address of an Oriental missionary , and were full of regret that papa had not heard , in the first instance , the interesting things which they tried to repeat to him . Perhaps , through all other hidden thoughts , the one that breathed most comfort was , that Will Ladislaw at least was not likely to publish what had taken place that evening . CHAPTER LXII . He was a squyer of lowe degre , That loved the king’s daughter of Hungrie . — Old Romance . Will Ladislaw’s mind was now wholly bent on seeing Dorothea again , and forthwith quitting Middlemarch . The morning after his agitating scene with Bulstrode he wrote a brief letter to her , saying that various causes had detained him in the neighborhood longer than he had expected , and asking her permission to call again at Lowick at some hour which she would mention on the earliest possible day , he being anxious to depart , but unwilling to do so until she had granted him an interview . He left the letter at the office , ordering the messenger to carry it to Lowick Manor , and wait for an answer . Ladislaw felt the awkwardness of asking for more last words . His former farewell had been made in the hearing of Sir James Chettam , and had been announced as final even to the butler . It is certainly trying to a man’s dignity to reappear when he is not expected to do so : a first farewell has pathos in it , but to come back for a second lends an opening to comedy , and it was possible even that there might be bitter sneers afloat about Will’s motives for lingering . Still it was on the whole more satisfactory to his feeling to take the directest means of seeing Dorothea , than to use any device which might give an air of chance to a meeting of which he wished her to understand that it was what he earnestly sought . When he had parted from her before , he had been in ignorance of facts which gave a new aspect to the relation between them , and made a more absolute severance than he had then believed in . He knew nothing of Dorothea’s private fortune , and being little used to reflect on such matters , took it for granted that according to Mr . Casaubon’s arrangement marriage to him , Will Ladislaw , would mean that she consented to be penniless .
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