pairing to the chapel, he immediately returned to his apartment, declaring he must himself restore it to her."
"Dear heart, (cried Mrs. Beatrice) well, I protest he is very complaisant."
'Twas a complaisance, however, which Madeline would gladly have excused, and which she wondered a mind so afflicted as his could ever have thought of.
"I never saw my Lord more disturbed than he was just after finding the picture, (said Lafroy) I thought when he returned to his apartment he would have fainted."
"Since so disordered 'tis a greater wonder than ever that he should desire to see a stranger," cried the housekeeper.
"Aye, so I think too," said Lafroy.
Madeline saw he was impatient to conduct her to his Lord, and, though with a reluctance she could scarcely conceal, she did not hesitate to accompany him immediately.
