yesterday, for the sole purpose of imploring her to let me speak to Sir Percival and Mr. Fairlie, more plainly and strongly than she could speak to either of them herself, about this lamentable marriage. She interposed, gently but firmly, in the middle of my remonstrances.
“I left yesterday to decide,” she said; “and yesterday HAS decided. It is too late to go back.”
Sir Percival spoke to me this afternoon about what had passed in Laura’s room. He assured me that the unparalleled trust she had
an hour later I was back at the house, and was informing Miss Halcombe of all that had happened.
She listened to me from beginning to end with a steady, silent attention, which, in a woman of her temperament and disposition, was the strongest proof that could be offered of the serious manner in which