He had set all his chances upon this cast, and it was more hazardous than he had deemed.

He had counted too much upon the jealousy of common natures.

After all, how little to the ear of one resolved to deceive herself might pass between these two young persons, meeting not to avow attachment, but to take courage from each other! What restraint might they impose on their feelings! Still, the game must be played out.
As they now neared the house, Dalibard looked carefully round, lest they should encounter Mainwaring on his way to it.

He had counted on arriving before the young man could get there.
"But," said Lucretia, breaking silence, with an ironical smile,--"but--for your tender anxiety for me has, no doubt, provided all means and contrivance, all necessary aids to baseness and eavesdropping, that can assure my happiness--how am I to be present at this interview ?" "I have provided, as you say," answered Dalibard, in the tone of a man deeply hurt, "those means which I, who have found the world one foe and one traitor, deemed the best to distinguish falsehood from truth.

I have arranged that we shall enter the house unsuspected.