The next dance was a quadrille, and he saw that the space after that was also vacant; so he boldly wrote down his name for both.

I almost think that Florence must have suspected that Harry Annesley was to be there that night, or why should the two places have been kept vacant?
"And now what is this," he began, "about your going to Brussels ?" "Mamma's brother is minister there, and we are just going on a visit." "But why now?
I am sure there is some especial cause." Florence would not say that there was no especial cause, so she could only repeat her assertion that they certainly were going to Brussels.

She herself was well aware that she was to be taken out of Harry's way, and that something was expected to occur during this short month of her absence which might be detrimental to him,--and to her also.

But this she could not tell, nor did she like to say that the plea given by her mother was the general state of the Scarborough affairs.

She did not wish to declare to this lover that that other lover was as nothing to her.