I presume, however, the fear of detection prevents his resuming his nocturnal visits.

He lodges at an inn on the opposite shore of the lake, under the name, he tells me, of Dawson; he has a bad choice in names, that must be allowed.

He has not left the army, I believe, but he says nothing of his present views, 'To complete my anxiety, my father is returned suddenly, and in high displeasure.

Our good hostess, as I learned from a bustling conversation between her housekeeper and her, had no expectation of seeing him for a week; but I rather suspect his arrival was no surprise to his friend Mr.
Mervyn.

His manner to me was singularly cold and constrained, sufficiently so to have damped all the courage with which I once resolved to throw myself on his generosity.