Such is woman's love; such is the love of which a man's heart is never capable! Alaric's committal had taken place very much in the manner in which it was told at the Weights and Measures.

He had received a note from one of the Bow Street magistrates, begging his attendance in the private room at the police-office.

There he had passed nearly the whole of one day; and he was also obliged to pass nearly the whole of another in the same office.

On this second day the proceedings were not private, and he was accompanied by his own solicitor.
It would be needless to describe how a plain case was, as usual, made obscure by the lawyers, how Acts of Parliament were consulted, how the magistrate doubted, how indignant Alaric's attorney became when it was suggested that some insignificant piece of evidence should be admitted, which, whether admitted or rejected, could have no real bearing on the case.

In these respects this important examination was like other important examinations of the same kind, such as one sees in the newspapers whenever a man above the ordinary felon's rank becomes amenable to the outraged laws.