Lord! how interesting it is!--ain't it, Mr.Moody?
Please to go on, miss." But Isabel, though she spoke with perfect sweetness and temper, declined to go on.

"I had better tell you, sir, how I came to seal her Ladyship's letter," she said.

"If I may venture on giving my opinion, _that_ part of my story seems to be the only part of it which relates to your business with me to-day." Without further preface she described the circumstances which had led to her assuming the perilous responsibility of sealing the letter.

Old Sharon's wandering attention began to wander again: he was evidently occupied in setting another trap.

For the second time he interrupted Isabel in the middle of a sentence.