She had no second spare-room at her disposal--so we settled that I was to sleep at a lodging-house in the neighborhood.

In this same house, Oscar was also to be accommodated, when the doctors sanctioned his removal to London.

It was now thought likely--if all went well--that the marriage might be celebrated at the end of the three months, from Miss Batchford's residence in town.
Three days before the date of Lucilla's departure, these plans--so far as I was concerned in them--were all over-thrown.
A letter from Paris reached me, with more bad news.

My absence had produced the worst possible effect on good Papa.
The moment my influence had been removed, he had become perfectly unmanageable.

My sisters assured me that the abominable woman from whom I had rescued him, would most certainly end in marrying him after all, unless I reappeared immediately on the scene.