He drew her hand under his arm and hurried her away.

Mrs.Green got down-stairs only in time to see her in the carriage.
Then the bridegroom sprung lightly in beside her, the carriage door closed, the horses started, and the happy pair were off.
* * * * * Sybilla Silver went back to the Court alone.

My lady, in sullen dignity, took her daughter and went straight to her jointure house at the other extremity of the village.
She stood in the confer of a lengthy suite of apartments--the new Lady Kingsland's--opening one into the other in a long vista of splendor.
She took a portrait out of her breast and gazed at it with brightly glittering eyes.
"A whole year has passed, my mother," she said, slowly, "and nothing has been done.

But Sybilla will keep her oath.

Sir Jasper Kingsland's only son shall meet his doom.