"You acknowledge your faults with such a grace," said she, "that we must needs forgive them.

And now to show you how much you need forgiveness.

Come, children," she bade her cousins--for whose innocence she had made apology but a moment back.

"Your arm, Harry," she begged her brother-in-law.
Sir Harry obeyed her readily, but without eagerness.

In his heart he cursed his friend Caryll for having set her on to this.
Mr.Caryll himself hung upon her other side, his eyes toward Lady Ostermore and Hortensia, who, whilst being observed by all, were being approached by few; and these few confined themselves to an exchange of greetings with her ladyship, which constituted a worse offence to Mistress Winthrop than had they stayed away.
Suddenly, as if drawn by his ardent gaze, Hortensia's eyes moved at last from their forward fixity.