How came she there?
It was the old story of girlish imprudence, of girlish romance and folly, of a vivid imagination and bright, warm poetical fancy wrongly influenced and led astray.

Much may be forgiven her, for lovely Marion Arleigh, one of the richest heiresses in England, was an orphan.

No mother's love had taught her wisdom.

She had no memory of a mother's gentle warning, or sweet and tender wisdom.

Her mother died when she was born, and her father, John Arleigh, of Hanton, did not long survive his wife.