Certainly. I grieve to say it, my dear friend, — but she was young, very young, when at Bath. She suffered this fellow to address her too openly. Nay — for I will be frank, — she was suspected of being in love with him.

She was in love with him," said Brandon, drily, and fixing the malignant coldness of his eye upon the suitor. "And, for aught I see," added he, "she is so at this moment."

"You are cruel!" said Mauleverer, disconcerted. "No, for the sake of my continued address... "

"My dear lord," said Brandon, "while the anger in here of a woman scorned... " 