Adela saw what Cornelia meant to do.

It was not to fly to Sir Twickenham, but to dismiss Mr.Barrett.

Arabella consented to write to Edward Buxley, but would not speak of old days, and barely alluded to a misunderstanding; though if she loved one man, this was he.

Adela was disengaged.

She had moreover to do penance, for a wrong committed; and just as children will pinch themselves, pleased up to the verge of unendurable pain, so do sentimentalists find a keen relish in performing secret penance for self-accused offences.