We shall be better employed in settling our arrangements for the future.

I am obliged to return to town this evening.

Pray let me hear how I can best assist you; pray tell me what trouble and what responsibility I can take off your hands." For the moment, neither Norah nor Miss Garth seemed to be capable of answering him.

Magdalen's reception of the news which annihilated the marriage prospect that her father's own lips had placed before her not a month since, had bewildered and dismayed them alike.

They had summoned their courage to meet the shock of her passionate grief, or to face the harder trial of witnessing her speechless despair.