"I shall do my duty," said Miss Stanbury.
"I am quite sure mamma will do nothing wrong," said Dorothy.

But the letter was written and sent, and the answer to the letter reached the house in the Close in due time.
When Miss Stanbury had read and re-read the very short reply which her niece had written, she became at first pale with dismay, and then red with renewed vigour and obstinacy.

She had made herself, as she thought, quite certain of her facts before she had acted on her information.

There was some equivocation, some most unworthy deceit in Priscilla's letter.

Or could it be possible that she herself had been mistaken?
Another gentleman had been there;--not, however, with the object of seeing Mrs.Trevelyan! So said Priscilla.