The next day, however, he had no opportunity of speaking to them alone, and Saturday night found him as miserably undecided as before.

"Oh dear, if there were any one I could ask!" There was One, and though aid was feebly asked, it was granted; and with much fear and anxiety, Louis declined accompanying the party to A---- church the next morning.
Vernon stared, and Reginald tried in vain to persuade him to alter his mind,--but he stood firm, and turning away from them, afraid to trust himself, stayed up stairs till the castle chapel bells began to ring, and then hastened down with a happy, free, and light heart, to join his mother.
"Hey-day, Louis!" exclaimed his grandfather; "I thought you were off long ago.

You're too late: the carriage has been gone this hour.

What's the meaning of these late hours, sir ?" "I was up quite early, grandfather," said Louis.
"Then how was it you let them go without you ?" "Because I had rather not go, sir," said Louis, with a heightened color.
"And pray why could you not say so sooner ?--you are the most uncertain fellow;--not the smallest dependence ever to be placed upon you.

Do you know your own mind, Mr.Louis ?" "Not always at first," replied Louis, in a low tone.
"Hold up your head and speak out.