Believe me, Miss Revel, I feel most sincerely for your situation; and, if it were not considered an impertinent question, I should ask you what may be your present intentions ?" "Acquainted as you are with all the circumstances, Mr Forster, the question is not impertinent, but kind.

God knows that I require an adviser.

I would, if possible, conceal the facts from Captain Drawlock.

It is not for a daughter to publish a father's errors; but you know all, and I can therefore have no scruple in consulting with you: I do not see why I should.

My resolution is, at best, a hasty one; but it is, never to enter the house of my relation under such humiliating circumstances--that is decided: but how to act, or what to do, is where I require advice.