Julian, as you will presently see, has enough to answer for without being held responsible for errors of judgment in which he has had no share.

Lady Janet (as she herself told me) went to the Refuge of her own free-will to ask Mercy Merrick's pardon for the language which she had used on the previous day.

'I passed a night of such misery as no words can describe'-- this, I assure you, is what her ladyship really said to me--'thinking over what my vile pride and selfishness and obstinacy had made me say and do.

I would have gone down on my knees to beg her pardon if she would have let me.

My first happy moment was when I won her consent to come and visit me sometimes at Mablethorpe House.' "You will, I am sure, agree with me that such extravagance as this is to be pitied rather than blamed.