Mainwaring sprang forward, and despite her struggle, pressed it to his lips, his heart.
"Oh," he exclaimed, in broken accents, which gradually became more clear and loud, "what--what have I lost!--lost forever! No, no, I will be worthy of you! I do not, I dare not, say that I love you still! I feel what I owe to Lucretia.

How I became first ensnared, infatuated; how, with your image graven so deeply here--" "Mainwaring--Mr.Mainwaring--I must not hear you.

Is this your promise ?" "Yes, you must hear me yet.

How I became engaged to your sister,--so different indeed from you,--I start in amaze and bewilderment when I seek to conjecture.

But so it was.