The child had a good night, and was going on well the next day. It must be a work of time to ascertain that no injury had been done to the spine; but Mr robinson found nothing to increase alarm, and Charles Musgrove began, consequently, to feel no necessity for longer confinement. The child was to be kept in bed and amused as quietly as possible; but what was there for a father to do? This was quite a female case, and it would be highly absurd in him, who could be of no use at home, to shut himself up. His father very much wished him to meet Captain Wentworth, and there being no sufficient reason against it, he ought to go;and it ended in his making a bold, public declaration,when he came in from shooting, of his meaning to dress directly, and dine at the other house.