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SHOWS HOW A POSITION OF DELICACY FOR A LADY AND GENTLEMAN.
WAS MET IN SIMPLE FASHION WITHOUT HURT TO EITHER Redworth's impulse was to laugh for very gladness of heart, as he proffered excuses for his tremendous alarums and in doing so, the worthy gentleman imagined he must have persisted in clamouring for admission because he suspected, that if at home, she would require a violent summons to betray herself.

It was necessary to him to follow his abashed sagacity up to the mark of his happy animation.
'Had I known it was you!' said Diana, bidding him enter the passage.

She wore a black silk mantilla and was warmly covered.
She called to her maid Danvers, whom Redworth remembered: a firm woman of about forty, wrapped, like her mistress, in head-covering, cloak, scarf and shawl.

Telling her to scour the kitchen for firewood, Diana led into a sitting-room.