Miss Carleton will not interfere with the whims of an heiress." So it was arranged, and everything fell out just as Adelaide Lyster had foreseen.

Miss Carleton did not care to interfere with the whims of a great heiress like Marion Arleigh.
"By all means, stay at home, my love, if you wish, and Miss Lyster, too.
She is an admirable young person; so prudent, so discreet.

I could not leave you in better hands." Marion Arleigh lived afterward to be presented at Court, but she never again felt the same diffidence, the same trepidation, as when, with her false friend by her side, she went down the steps that led to the orchard.

The hedge was high and thick, tall trees formed a complete barrier between the grounds and the high road, no strangers or passersby could be seen.

Miss Lyster had chosen her time well.