How dare you keep speaking to me when I request you not ?" "But I can't excuse myself, and obtain my pardon, and recover your love, unless I am allowed to speak." "Oh, you can speak to my aunt Molineux, and she will read you a fine lesson." "Where is she ?" "Nobody knows.

But there is her house, the one with the iron gate.

Get her ear first, if you really love me; and don't you ever waylay me again.

If you do, I shall say something rude to you, sir.

Oh, I'm so happy!" Having let this out, she hid her face with her hands, and fled like the very wind.
At dinner-time she was in high spirits.
The admiral congratulated her.
"Brava, Bell! Youth and health and a foreign air will soon cure you of that folly." Bella blushed deeply, and said nothing.