Clarendon went home, scarcely daring to look his friends in the face.

Soon, however, he learned with surprise that the act, which had, as he at first thought, for ever dishonoured his family, was applauded by some persons of high station.

His niece, the Princess of Denmark, asked him why he shut himself up.

He answered that he had been overwhelmed with confusion by his son's villany.

Anne seemed not at all to understand this feeling.