But let me see him no more." "Sir, I beseech you--" cried Jocelyn.
But he was cut short by the Puritan, who, turning from him contemptuously, said to his daughter--"Let him depart immediately." Aveline signed to the young man to go; but finding him remain motionless, she took him by the hand, and led him some way along the terrace.

Then, releasing her hold, she bade him farewell! "Wherefore have you done this ?" inquired Jocelyn reproachfully.
"Question me not; but be satisfied I have acted for the best," she replied.

"O Jocelyn!" she continued anxiously, "if an opportunity should occur to you of serving my father, do not neglect it." "Be assured I will not," the young man replied.

"Shall we not meet again ?" he asked, in a tone of deepest anxiety.
"Perhaps," she answered.

"But you must go.