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The Baronet attempts by Falsehood.
The Baronet attempts by Falsehood to urge his Daughter into an Avowal of her Lover's Name.
Sir Thomas Gourlay, after his unpleasant interview with the stranger, rode easily home, meditating upon some feasible plan by which he hoped to succeed in entrapping his daughter into the avowal of her lover's name, for he had no doubt whatsoever that the gentleman at the inn and he were one and the same individual.

For this purpose, he determined to put on a cheerful face, and assume, as far as in him lay, an air of uncommon satisfaction.

Now this was a task of no ordinary difficulty for Sir Thomas to encounter.

The expression of all the fiercer and darker passions was natural to such a countenance as his; but even to imagine such a one lit up with mirth, was to conceive an image so grotesque and ridiculous, that the firmest gravity must give way before it.