Knowing nothing of each other's intentions, and screened from each other by the darkness, they had left the town by the same conveyance.

"He, the greater, persevered; I, the smaller, returned!" she said.
'Recovering from her stupor, Mademoiselle V--- bethought herself again of her employer, Mrs.Newbold, whom recent events had estranged.

To that lady she went with a full heart, and explained everything.

Mrs.Newbold kept to herself her opinion of the episode, and reinstalled the deserted bride in her old position as governess to the family.
'A governess she remained to the end of her days.

After the final peace with France she became acquainted with my mother, to whom by degrees she imparted these experiences of hers.