The rooms were large, lofty, and well lighted.

Along the western side of the house ran a long terrace called the western terrace; there the sun appeared to shine brightest, there tender plants flourished, there tame white doves came to be fed and a peacock walked in majesty; from there one heard the distant rush of the river.
There Lady Arleigh spent the greater part of her time--there she wore her gentle life away.

Three years had elapsed, and no change had come to her.

She read of her husband's sojourn in Scotland.

Then she read in the fashionable intelligence that he had gone to Wood Lynton, the seat of the Earl of Mountdean.