summer noon
In the most lugubrious colours he brought before her the consequences of that marriage -- the extinguished name , the demolished dwelling-place , the renunciation of native soil itself . He called upon her , by all that was sacred , to contrive some means to undo the terrible mischief she had originally occasioned , and had recently helped to complete . His epistle ended by an attempt to conciliate and coax . He revived the image of that wild Caroline Lyndsay , to whom HE had never refused a favour ; whose earliest sums he had assisted to cast up -- to whose young idea he had communicated the elementary principles of the musical gamut -- to whom he had played on his flute , winter eve and summer noon , by the hour together ; that Caroline Lyndsay , who when a mere child , had led Guy Darrell where she willed , as by a thread of silk . Ah , how Fairthorn had leapt for joy when , eighteen years ago , he had thought that Caroline Lyndsay was to be the sunshine and delight of the house to which she had lived to bring the cloud and the grief ! And by all these memories , Fairthorn conjured her either to break off the marriage she had evidently helped to bring about , or , failing that , to convince Guy Darrell that he was not the object of her remorseful and affectionate compassion . Caroline was almost beside herself at the receipt of this letter .