Let the colonel come here for me and take me home with him, and then I will remain there until I can return to England; if not, I will submit to any privation, to any honest humiliation, rather than enter under his roof.

But, indeed, Mr Forster, it is necessary that Captain Drawlock should be summoned.

We are here alone: it is not correct: you must feel that it is not." "I do feel that it is not; but, Isabel, I was this morning of some trifling service to the colonel, and may have some little weight with him.

Will you allow me to return to him, and try what I can do?
It will not be dark for these two hours, and I will soon be back." Isabel assented.

Newton hastened to the colonel, who had already been much surprised when he had been informed by his domestics (for he had not seen them) that only two ladies had arrived.