CHAPTER IX.
A DISCOVERY AND A DEPARTURE.
I HASTENED home after my eventful interview with Isora, and gave myself up to tumultuous and wild conjecture.

Aubrey sought me the next morning: I narrated to him all that had occurred: he said little, but that little enraged me, for it was contrary to the dictates of my own wishes.

The character of Morose in the "Silent Woman" is by no means an uncommon one.

Many men--certainly many lovers--would say with equal truth, always provided they had equal candour, "All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome." Certainly I felt that amiable sentiment most sincerely with regard to Aubrey.

I left him abruptly: a resolution possessed me.