Good night, papa." Mr Vavasor, as he went up to his bedroom, felt sure that there had been something wrong between his daughter and her lover.

"I don't know how she'll ever put up with him," he said to himself, "he is so terribly conceited.

I shall never forget how he went on about Charles Kemble, and what a fool he made of himself." Alice, before she went to bed, sat down and wrote a letter to her cousin Kate..