The reasons for the choice of the seventh canto of Book II of the _Faerie Queene_ may lie in the allegorical meaning of Guyon, or Temperance, and the "dread and horror" of his experience.
[29] With this speech, which is not in _F of F--A_, Mary begins to develop the character of the Steward, who later accompanies Mathilda on her search for her father.

Although he is to a very great extent the stereptyped faithful servant, he does serve to dramatize the situation both here and in the later scene.
[30] This clause is substituted for a more conventional and less dramatic passage in _F of F--A_: "& besides there appeared more of struggle than remorse in his manner although sometimes I thought I saw glim[p]ses of the latter feeling in his tumultuous starts & gloomy look." [31] These paragraphs beginning Chapter V are much expanded from _F of F--A_.

Some of the details are in the _S-R fr_.

This scene is recalled at the end of the story.

(See page 80) Cf.