All hope of marrying Godfrey Wardour would be gone, of course.

Did he but remain uncertain as to the truth or falsehood of a third part of what Mr.Redmain would record against her, he would never meet her again! Since the commencement of this last attack of Mr.Redmain's malady, she had scarcely slept; and now what Mewks reported rendered her nigh crazy.

For some time she had been generally awake half the night, and all the last night she had been wandering here and there about the house, not unfrequently couched where she could hear every motion in Mr.Redmain's room.

Haunted by fear, she in turn haunted her fear.

She could not keep from staring down the throat of the pit.