Enthusiasm is a heaven-sent steeplechaser, and takes a flying leap of the ordinary barriers; it is more intrusive than chivalry, and has a passion to communicate its ardour.

Two letters from stranger ladies reached Diana, through her lawyers and Lady Dunstane.

Anonymous letters, not so welcome, being male effusions, arrived at her lodgings, one of them comical almost over the verge to pathos in its termination: 'To me you will ever be the Goddess Diana--my faith in woman!' He was unacquainted with her! She had not the heart to think the writers donkeys.

How they obtained her address was a puzzle; they stole in to comfort her slightly.

They attached her to her position of Defendant by the thought of what would have been the idea of her character if she had flown--a reflection emanating from inexperience of the resources of sentimentalists.
If she had flown! She was borne along by the tide like a butterfly that a fish may gobble unless a friendly hand shall intervene.