In what position do you now stand with Caroline ?" "Briefly, then, if I must speak, in the humble character of a rejected, scornfully rejected lover." His feelings carried him beyond control.

The triumph he had seen glittering so brightly in the eyes of Caroline had for the time turned every emotion into gall.

He shrunk from the agony it was to find he was deceived in one whom he had believed so perfect.
"Scorn! has a daughter of mine acted thus?
Encourage, and then scorn.
St.Eval, for pity's sake, tell me! you are jesting; it is not of Caroline you speak." So spoke the now agonized father, for every hope of his child's singleness of mind and purity of intention appeared at once blighted.

He grasped St.Eval's hand, and looked on him with eyes from which, in the deep disappointment of his heart, all sternness had fled.
"I grieve to cause you pain, my dear friend," replied the young Earl, entering at once into the father's feelings, "but it is even so.

Your daughter has only acted as many, nay, as the majority of her sex are fond of doing.