I prayed for strength against this, my first temptation, and then my heart shrunk in fear lest I should never again be tempted.

The next day I walked out on the Bourne Path toward Hamilton House and met him.

To my shame I confess that I looked at him.

He stopped, bowed low before me, and asked if he might introduce himself, since there was no one else to do that office for him.

He said that soon Lord St.Albans would be up from London and would introduce him to my father.