However, you may expect to see me, and that, too, before Miss Weldon's arrival." "If you don't present yourself before, I am not so sure that we will let you come afterwards," said the friend, smiling.
On the next evening the young man called.

Mrs.Hartley, the bride of his friend, endeavored to forget the past, and to receive him with all the external signs of forgetfulness.

But, in this she did not fully succeed, and, of course, the visit of Florence was painfully embarrassing, at least, to himself.

From that time until the arrival of Miss Weldon, he felt concerned and unhappy.

That Mrs.Hartley would fully communicate or covertly hint to Clara certain events of his former life, he had too much reason to fear; and, were this done, he felt that all his fond hopes would be scattered to the winds.