Speak plainly." "How am I to answer him, Alizon ?" said Dorothy.
"Nay, do not appeal to me, dear young lady," she answered, blushing.
"I have gone too far to retreat," rejoined Dorothy, "and therefore, despite Mistress Nutter's interdiction, the truth shall out.

You have guessed shrewdly, Richard.

A discovery _has_ been made--a very great discovery.

Alizon is not the daughter of Elizabeth Device." "The intelligence delights me, though it scarcely surprises me," cried Richard, gazing with heartfelt pleasure at the blushing girl; "for I was sure of the fact from the first.

Nothing so good and charming as Alizon could spring from so foul a source.