I must go home; my friends will have a right to complain of me if I remain thus lost to them many weeks longer.

And you, my dear Alice, are now sufficiently advanced to receive better instruction than I or Mr.Simcox can give you.

I therefore propose to place you in some respectable family, where you will have more comfort and a higher station than you have here.

You can finish your education, and, instead of being taught, you will be thus enabled to become a teacher to others.
With your beauty, Alice" (and Maltravers sighed), "and natural talents, and amiable temper, you have only to act well and prudently to secure at last a worthy husband and a happy home.

Have you heard me, Alice?
Such is the plan I have formed for you." The young man thought as he spoke, with honest kindness and upright honour; it was a bitterer sacrifice than perhaps the reader thinks for.
But Maltravers, if he had an impassioned, had not a selfish heart; and he felt, to use his own expression, more emphatic than eloquent, that "it would not do" to live any longer alone with this beautiful girl, like the two children whom the good Fairy kept safe from sin and the world in the Pavilion of Roses.
But Alice comprehended neither the danger to herself nor the temptations that Maltravers, if he could not resist, desired to shun.