I will take care of Lady Tayne.

I do not see that you need be anxious, or that there is the least need for giving up the party; let me persuade you to go." "It seems unkind to leave Lady Tayne," he said.

"I have never left her for so long, and never alone." "If you will trust her to me, I will take the greatest care of her," said Miss Reinhart; "and I am sure, quite sure, that if Lady Tayne knew, she would insist on it--she would indeed.

She would be the last to wish you to give up every pleasure for her sake." It was the thin end of the wedge, but she succeeded in driving it in.
He went.

It was the first time he had left my mother, but by no means the last.