This irrepressible delight and interest in the active life of the world, what could it be but the tendency to evil, most strongly developed?
These heart-burnings whenever she witnessed men and women rejoicing in the exercise of their natural affections, what could that be but the proneness to evil in its grossest form?
It was naturally a great surprise to Maud when she received the letter from her aunt, which asked her not to continue her engagement into the new quarter, giving as a reason merely that the writer wished for her at home.

It was even with something of dread and shrinking that she looked forward to a renewal of the old life.

Still, it was enough that her aunt had need of her.

On her return to London, she was met with strange revelations.

Miss Bygrave's story had been agreed upon between herself and Paul.