O, I shall never forgive myself that I did not follow him when he parted from me yesterday!" "Let me hear how that occurred, maiden ?" asked Sir Thomas.
"It chanced in this way, Sir.

I have already described my father's state of mind, and the distempered view he has been accustomed to take of all things.

Yesterday, May-day sports were held in the village of Tottenham, where we dwelt; and as such things are an abomination in his sight, he took upon him to reprove the actors in the pastimes.

They who witnessed his conduct on that occasion would hardly hold him to be under the due control of reason.

Amongst the spectators was the son of an old friend, whose name having accidentally reached my father, he invited him into the house, and a misunderstanding having arisen between them, the latter suddenly left--dismissed almost with rudeness.