Promise me that you will not hesitate in this." Lucy gave the promise readily; and Brandon continued in a careless tone: "I hear that you danced last night with a young gentleman whom no one knew, and whose companions bore a very strange appearance.

In a place like Bath, society is too mixed not to render the greatest caution in forming acquaintances absolutely necessary.

You must pardon me, my dearest niece, if I remark that a young lady owes it not only to herself but to her relations to observe the most rigid circumspection of conduct.

This is a wicked world, and the peach-like bloom of character is easily rubbed away.

In these points Mauleverer can be of great use to you.