From my knowledge of her character and sentiments, that is just the last thing I could have imagined possible.

There was no quarrel between them; indeed, she was expecting his return with delight at the very time when she left her home in Hampshire.

The thought of sharing her fortune with him was one of perfect happiness.

How can you explain her abrupt flight from him in the face of this ?" "I am not free to explain matters, Mr.Fenton," answered the lawyer; "you must be satisfied with the knowledge that the lady about whom you have been so anxious is safe." "I thank God for that," Gilbert said earnestly; "but that, knowledge of itself is not quite enough.

I shall be uneasy so long as there is this secrecy and mystery surrounding her fate.