Lily Dale's First Love-Letter Crosbie was rather proud of himself when he went to bed.

He had succeeded in baffling the charge made against him, without saying anything as to which his conscience need condemn him.

So, at least, he then told himself.

The impression left by what he had said would be that there had been some question of an engagement between him and Lilian Dale, but that nothing at this moment was absolutely fixed.
But in the morning his conscience was not quite so clear.

What would Lily think and say if she knew it all?
Could he dare to tell her, or to tell any one the real state of his mind?
As he lay in bed, knowing that an hour remained to him before he need encounter the perils of his tub, he felt that he hated Courcy Castle and its inmates.