Do not let your thoughts be so wholly engrossed by pleasure as to prevent your bestowing on Him but one hour of your day.

Let me clasp my child to my heart, when we return to Oakwood, unsullied, untouched by the stains of the world.

Let me have the blessed comfort of seeing my Caroline return to the home of her childhood the same innocent happy being she was when she left.

I have ever endeavoured to make you happy, to give you those pleasures you naturally desire, to form your character not only for the happiness of this world, but for that of the next; then if you are ever tempted to do wrong, if no higher consideration bids you pause, think on your mother, Caroline; remember my happiness or misery greatly depends on you, and, oh, if you have ever loved me, pause ere you proceed." "Mother, do not doubt me; Caroline Hamilton will never sully the name she bears," replied Caroline, her eye flashing, and speaking proudly, to conceal the emotion her mother's words had involuntarily produced.
Mrs.Hamilton gazed on the haughty and satisfied security the features of her child expressed.

A more softened feeling would at that moment better have pleased the yearning heart of the mother, but she checked the rising sigh of disappointment, and folding Caroline to her bosom, she imprinted a fond kiss on her noble brow, and murmuring, "God in heaven bless you, my child, and grant you sufficient strength," they descended the stairs together.
Brilliant indeed was the scene that met the dazzled eyes of Caroline, as she entered the elegant suite of rooms of the Duchess of Rothbury.