9/20 Do you remember once speaking to me about a girl you saw at the Manor lodge. Her name was Hart." "Yes, yes, a very handsome, queer girl. I spoke to Mrs.Bertram about her. She seemed to me to have taken an unjust prejudice against the poor lonely child." "Mr.Ingram, Miss Hart is engaged to Loftus Bertram, and he will marry her next Tuesday." "Beatrice, have you gone quite mad? Captain Bertram shall marry Nina, because in heart they are married already, because they love each other, as I never could love him, nor he me, because they were betrothed to each other before he and I ever met, because Nina was dying for love of him, and only marrying him can save her. |