She fancied her son, wayward as he was, yet loved her; and though she dared not look forward to his reformation, still, to feel he loved her--oh, if fresh zeal were required in her prayers, that knowledge gave it.
The first week in May they left Greville Manor.

Still weak and suffering, the struggle to conceal and subdue all she felt at leaving, as she thought for ever, the house of her infancy, of her girlhood, her youth, was almost too much for poor Mary; and her mother more than once believed she would not reach in life the land they were about to seek.
The sea breezes, for they travelled whenever they could along the shore, in a degree nerved her; and by the time they reached Dover, ten days after they had left the Manor, she had rallied sufficiently to ease the sorrowing heart of her mother of a portion of its burden.
They arrived at Dover late in the evening, and early the following day, as Mary sat by the large window of the hotel, watching with some appearance of interest the bustling scene before her, a travelling carriage passed rapidly by and stopped at the entrance.

She knew the livery, and her heart throbbed almost to suffocation, as it whispered that Mr.Hamilton would not come alone.
"Mother, Mr.Hamilton has arrived," she succeeded at length in saying.
"And Emmeline--is it, can it be ?" But she had no more time to wonder, for ere she had recovered the agitation the sight of one other of Mr.
Hamilton's family had occasioned, they were in the room, and Emmeline springing forward, had flung herself on Mary's neck; and utterly unable to control her feelings at the change she beheld in her friend, wept passionately on her shoulder.

Powerfully agitated, Mary felt her strength was failing, and had it not been for Mr.Hamilton's support, she would have fallen to the ground.

He supported her with a father's tenderness to the couch, and reproachfully demanded of Emmeline if she had entirely forgotten her promise of composure.
"Do not reprove her, my dear friend," said Mrs.Greville, as she drew the weeping girl affectionately to her.