No one questioned him as to what had occurred, but all understood he had received some distressing intelligence.
Amid his anxiety one circumstance gave him unalloyed satisfaction.

This was the change wrought in Amabel's character.

It has been stated that she had become extremely devout, and passed the whole of the time not appointed for other occupations, in the study of the Scriptures, or in prayer.

Her manner was extremely sedate, and her conversation assumed a tone that gave her parents, and especially her father, inexpressible pleasure.

Mrs.Bloundel would have been equally delighted with the change, if it had tended to forward her own favourite scheme of a union with Leonard; but as this was not the case, though she rejoiced in the improvement, she still was not entirely satisfied.