Can it be that only seventeen weeks ago I set on this paper the fact of their marriage?
I am now an aged woman by comparison! On that never to be forgotten day we waited and waited, and Charles did not return.

At six o'clock, when poor little Caroline had gone back to her room in a state of suspense impossible to describe, a man who worked in the water-meadows came to the house and asked for my father.

He had an interview with him in the study.

My father then rang his bell, and sent for me.

I went down; and I then learnt the fatal news.