She is a thing of the night; and the night may give us some ideas." So they both turned in.
Adam knocked at Sir Nathaniel's door in the grey of the morning, and, on being bidden, came into the room.

He had several letters in his hand.
Sir Nathaniel sat up in bed.
"Well!" "I should like to read you a few letters, but, of course, I shall not send them unless you approve.

In fact"-- with a smile and a blush--"there are several things which I want to do; but I hold my hand and my tongue till I have your approval." "Go on!" said the other kindly.

"Tell me all, and count at any rate on my sympathy, and on my approval and help if I can see my way." Accordingly Adam proceeded: "When I told you the conclusions at which I had arrived, I put in the foreground that Mimi Watford should, for the sake of her own safety, be removed--and that the monster which had wrought all the harm should be destroyed." "Yes, that is so." "To carry this into practice, sir, one preliminary is required--unless harm of another kind is to be faced.

Mimi should have some protector whom all the world would recognise.