She was sure of herself now, within her own bosom, that she was bound in a peculiar way to be more than ordinarily true to Harry Annesley.

In such an emergency she ought to do for Harry Annesley more than a girl in common circumstances would be justified in doing for her lover.

Harry was maligned, ill-used, and slandered.

Her mother had been induced to call him a scamp, and to give as her reason for doing so an account of a transaction which was altogether false, though she no doubt had believed it to be true.
As she thought of all this she resolved that it was her duty to write to her lover, and tell him the story as she had heard it.

It might be most necessary that he should know the truth.