But he drew her apart from the crowd.

And there she charged him with perfidy, and threatened to appear at the church the next day with her marriage lines and forbid the banns.

He did all he could to quiet her, said that she was deceived and mistaken, and that he could not marry any one, being already married to herself, and that if she would meet him that night at the castle, just under the balcony, near Malcolm's Tower, he would explain everything to her satisfaction." "_It was no dream, then!_ Oh, Heaven! it was no dream! And my own senses witness against him!" exclaimed Salome again, throwing up her face and hands with a cry of anguish, and then dropping them, as before, upon the table in an attitude of abject despair.
"My lady, this is too much for you! too much!" said the compassionate woman, weeping over the distress she had caused.
"No, no; go on, go on; I will hear it all.

My own senses, pitying Heaven! my own senses bear witness to it," moaned Salome, in a smothered voice.
"Ah, my lady, it grieves me deeply to go on, as you bid me.

They met, Mr.
John Scott, as he called himself, and Rose Cameron, at the time and place agreed on--at midnight at Castle Lone, under the balcony near Malcolm's Tower.