Fortunately, as I gathered from her talk later, she made him angry enough to turn her out of the house without seeing Pamela.

She had to content herself with writing to her--it must have been a letter." "Why on earth didn't you interfere?
I wouldn't have stood it!" said Lord Crosland.
"I was at Beauleigh.

I was pretty soon suspicious that our secret had been discovered.

When three days passed without my getting a letter from Pamela, I was sure of it.

And then Fortune played into my stepmother's hands: I had a bad fall with a young horse, and injured my spine.