What mean you by this violence ?" "Ha! it is you then, fair mistress, that have done this work.

It is you that have meddled in the concerns of men, prying into their plans, and arresting their execution.

By my soul, I had not thought you so ready or so apt; but how do you reconcile it to your notions of propriety to be abroad at an hour which is something late for a coy damsel?
Munro, you must look to these rare doings, or they will work you some difficulty in time to come." Munro advanced and addressed her with some sternness--"Why are you abroad, Lucy, and at this hour?
why this disquietude, and what has alarmed you ?--why have you left your chamber ?" The uncle did not obtain, nor indeed did he appear to expect, any answer to his inquiries.

In the meanwhile, Rivers held possession of her arm, and she continued fruitlessly struggling for some moments in his grasp, referring at length to the speaker for that interference which he now appeared slow to manifest.
"Oh, sir! will you suffer me to be treated thus--will you not make this man undo his hold, and let me retire to my chamber ?" "You should have been there long before this, Lucy," was the reply, in a grave, stern accent.

"You must not complain, if, found thus, at midnight, in a part of the building remote from your chamber, you should be liable to suspicions of meddling with things which should not concern you." "Come, mistress--pray answer to this.