Flora had represented to her Mistress that to admit his visits was to disobey her Mother's orders: She described to her his emotion on entering the room, and the fire which sparkled in his eyes while He gazed upon her.

This had escaped Antonia's observation, but not her Attendant's; Who explaining the Monk's designs and their probable consequences in terms much clearer than Elvira's, though not quite so delicate, had succeeded in alarming her young Lady, and persuading her to treat him more distantly than She had done hitherto.

The idea of obeying her Mother's will at once determined Antonia.

Though She grieved at losing his society, She conquered herself sufficiently to receive the Monk with some degree of reserve and coldness.

She thanked him with respect and gratitude for his former visits, but did not invite his repeating them in future.