For this purpose she had first an interview with Mr.
Warwick, and next she hurried to Lady Dunstane at Copsley.

There, after jumbling Mr.Warwick's connubial dispositions and Mrs.Warwick's last book, and Mr.Percy Dacier's engagement to the great heiress in a gossipy hotch-potch, she contrived to gather a few items of fact, as that THE YOUNG MINISTER was probably modelled upon Mr.Percy Dacier.
Lady Dunstane made no concealment of it as soon as she grew sensible of the angling.

But she refused her help to any reconciliation between Mr.
and Mrs.Warwick.She declined to listen to Lady Wathin's entreaties.
She declined to give her reasons .-- These bookworm women, whose pride it is to fancy that they can think for themselves, have a great deal of the heathen in them, as morality discovers when it wears the enlistment ribands and applies yo them to win recruits for a service under the direct blessing of Providence.
Lady Wathin left some darts behind her, in the form of moral exclamations; and really intended morally.

For though she did not like Mrs.Warwick, she had no wish to wound, other than by stopping her further studies of the Young Minister, and conducting him to the young lady loving him, besides restoring a bereft husband to his own.

How sadly pale and worn poor Mr.Warwick appeared?
The portrayal of his withered visage to Lady Dunstane had quite failed to gain a show of sympathy.