Few words were said; but the repentant husband often silently pressed this angel to his bosom, and the tears which found their way to her beautiful eyelashes were tears of joy.
This weakish, and consequently villainous, though not ill-disposed person would have gone down to Willoughby that night; but his wife had great good sense.

She would not take her husband off, like a school-boy caught out of bounds.

She begged him to stay while she made certain purchases; but, for all that, her heart burned to be at home.

So in less than a week after the events we have related they left London.
Meantime, every day Mrs.Vane paid a quiet visit to Mrs.Woffington (for some days the actress admitted no other visitor), and was with her but two hours before she left London.

On that occasion she found her very sad.
"I shall never see you again in this world," said she; "but I beg of you to write to me, that my mind may be in contact with yours." She then asked Mabel, in her half-sorrowful, half-bitter way, how many months it would be ere she was forgotten.
Mabel answered by quietly crying.