He would conceal himself for that purpose in the garden, and be provided with false keys, by which to deliver her from her prison.

These circumstances were by no means adapted to calm her perturbed imagination.

To throw herself into the arms of the man whose intercourse she was employing every method to avoid, and whom, under the idea of a partner for life, she could least of all men endure, was, no doubt, an extraordinary proceeding.

The attendant circumstances of darkness and solitude aggravated the picture.

The situation of Tyrrel Place was uncommonly lonely; it was three miles from the nearest village, and not less than seven from that in which Mrs.Jakeman's sister resided, under whose protection Miss Melville was desirous of placing herself.