Again at Folking Thus Hester prevailed, and was taken back to the house of the man who had married her.

By this time very much had been said about the matter publicly.

It had been impossible to keep the question,--whether John Caldigate's recent marriage had been true or fraudulent,--out of the newspapers; and now the attempt that had been made to keep them apart by force gave an additional interest to the subject.

There was an opinion, very general among elderly educated people, that Hester ought to have allowed herself to be detained at the Grange.

'We do not mean to lean heavily on the unfortunate young lady,' said the 'Isle-of-Ely-Church-Intelligencer'; 'but we think that she would have better shown a becoming sense of her position had she submitted her self to her parents till the trial is over.