And then this lively crack-brained Scotch lawyer appears like a pantomime at the end of a tragedy.

And then how delightful it will be if Lucy gets back her fortune.' 'Now I think,' said the Colonel, 'that the most mysterious part of the business is, that Miss Julia Mannering, who must have known her father's anxiety about the fate of this young man Brown, or Bertram, as we must now call him, should have met him when Hazlewood's accident took place, and never once mentioned to her father a word of the matter, but suffered the search to proceed against this young gentleman as a suspicious character and assassin.' Julia, much of whose courage had been hastily assumed to meet the interview with her father, was now unable to rally herself; she hung down her head in silence, after in vain attempting to utter a denial that she recollected Brown when she met him.
'No answer! Well, Julia,' continued her father, gravely but kindly, 'allow me to ask you, Is this the only time you have seen Brown since his return from India?
Still no answer.

I must then naturally suppose that it is not the first time.

Still no reply.

Julia Mannering, will you have the kindness to answer me?
Was it this young man who came under your window and conversed with you during your residence at Mervyn Hall?
Julia, I command--I entreat you to be candid.' Miss Mannering raised her head.