It runs in the blood.

Hark! there goes the clock again--half-past seven.

Miss Vanstone, pardon this seasonable abruptness! If you are to carry out your resolution--if you are to be your own mistress much longer, you must take a course of some kind before eight o'clock.

You are young, you are inexperienced, you are in imminent danger.

Here is a position of emergency on one side--and here am I, on the other, with an uncle's interest in you, full of advice.