One wonders why it was never thought of before.

This is the scheme.

Ambulinia is to leave the breakfast-table, ostensibly to "attend to the placing of those flowers, which should have been done a week ago"-- artificial ones, of course; the others wouldn't keep so long--and then, instead of fixing the flowers, she is to walk out to the grove, and go off with Elfonzo.

The invention of this plan overstrained the author that is plain, for he straightway shows failing powers.

The details of the plan are not many or elaborate.