When day dawned I was still undecided, only that it was to be.
"You are going away early," said Coralie, as I ordered my horse.

"Surely you will not be away all day, Sir Edgar ?" "I am going to Harden Manor, and cannot say when I shall return.

Do not wait dinner for me--I may dine there." "It will be a long, dark day," she said, with a sigh.

"Do not be late--every hour will seem like two." She hovered round me, asking many questions, evidently seeking to know my business there.

When my horse was brought to the door, she came to me with a delicate spray of heliotrope.
"Let me fasten this in your coat, Sir Edgar.