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By degrees, as she sat, Felice'sthat her lover was unhar in wise resolve For the moment she was in

a u, "to run mad with

discretion;" and was so persuaded that discretion lay in departure that

she wished to set about going that very ether some small personal knick-knacks

scattered about the room, to feel that preparations were really in

train

While ht noise

out-of-doors, and stood still Surely it was a tapping at the

A thought entered her mind, and burned her cheek He had come to that

before; yet was it possible that he should dare to do so now!

All the servants were in bed, and in the ordinary course of affairs she

would have retired also Then she re it, she had not fastened the -shutter,

so that a streak of light froil to an observer on the lawn How all things

conspired against her keeping faith with Grace!