These are greatly engaged to see more of you, and I cannot consent to have my young women-folk disappointed.

To-morrow they will be going to Hope Park, where I think it very proper you should make your bow.

Call for me first, when I may possibly have something for your private hearing; then you shall be turned abroad again under the conduct of my misses; and until that time repeat to me your promise of secrecy." I had done better to have instantly refused, but in truth I was beside the power of reasoning; did as I was bid; took my leave I know not how; and when I was forth again in the close, and the door had shut behind me, was glad to lean on a house wall and wipe my face.

That horrid apparition (as I may call it) of Mr.Symon rang in my memory, as a sudden noise rings after it is over on the ear.

Tales of the man's father, of his falseness, of his manifold perpetual treacheries, rose before me from all that I had heard and read, and joined on with what I had just experienced of himself.