No amusement belongs of right so essentially to the young, in their first youth,--to the unthinking, the intoxicated,--to those whose blood is an elixir.
"If Constance be woman," said Godolphin to himself, as he returned to the ballroom, "I will yet humble her to my will.

I have not learned the science so long, to be now foiled in the first moment I have seriously wished to triumph." As this thought inspired and excited him, he moved along at some distance from, but carefully within the sight of Constance.

He paused by Lady Margaret Midgecombe.

He addressed her.

Notwithstanding the insolence and the ignorance of the Duchess of Winstoun, he was well received by both mother and daughter.