And there may be no reason for alarm.

Promise me, therefore, you will be silent." Leonard reluctantly gave the required pledge.
"I have unwittingly been the cause of much affliction to you," pursued Amabel--"and would gladly see you happy, and there is one person, I think, who would make you so--I mean Nizza Macascree.

From what she said to me when we were alone together in the vaults of Saint Faith's, I am sure she is sincerely attached to you.

Could you not requite her love ?" "No," replied Leonard.

"There is no change in affection like mine." "Pursue the course I have advised," replied Amabel, "and you will find all your troubles vanish.