But after the last scene at Padua she told Dalgetty that she would never make him miserable by marrying him.' 'What do you suppose she is coming here for ?' 'Very likely to get me to do something for this man.

She won't be his wife, but she likes to be his Providence: I shall promise anything, in return for her going quickly back to Venice--or Switzerland--where she often spends the summer.

So long as she and Miss Foster are under one roof, I shall not have a moment free from anxiety.' Eleanor sank back in her chair.

She was silent; but her eye betrayed the bitter animation of the thoughts passing behind them, thoughts evoked not so much by what Manisty had said, as by what he had _not_ said.

All alarm, all consideration to be concentrated on one point ?--nothing, and no one else, to matter?
But again she fought down the rising agony, refused to be mastered by it, or to believe her own terrors.