"Do you know I don't quite like that Colonel Osborne coming so much to your house." The face before her became still blacker, but still the man said nothing.

"I dare say it is a prejudice on my part, but I have always disliked him.

I think he is a dangerous friend;--what I call a snake in the grass.

And though Emily's high good sense, and love for you, and general feelings on such a subject, are just what a husband must desire--Indeed, I am quite sure that the possibility of anything wrong has never entered into her head.

But it is the very purity of her innocence which makes the danger.