I believe I may have some wrongs to repair towards you, I have often suspected so; but your sudden and unexpected appearance, connected with painful recollections, prevented my saying at first, as I now say, that whatever has procured me the honour of this visit, it is an acceptable one.' Bertram bowed with an air of distant yet civil acknowledgment to the grave courtesy of Mannering.
'Julia, my love, you had better retire.

Mr.Brown, you will excuse my daughter; there are circumstances which I perceive rush upon her recollection.' Miss Mannering rose and retired accordingly; yet, as she passed Bertram, could not suppress the words, 'Infatuated! a second time!' but so pronounced as to be heard by him alone.

Miss Bertram accompanied her friend, much surprised, but without venturing a second glance at the object of her terror.

Some mistake she saw there was, and was unwilling to increase it by denouncing the stranger as an assassin.

He was known, she saw, to the Colonel, and received as a gentleman; certainly he either was not the person she suspected or Hazlewood was right in supposing the shot accidental.
The remaining part of the company would have formed no bad group for a skilful painter.