When she did go to her chamber, Tiger, impatient of his long confinement, sprang out so quickly, that she did not observe him.

But such a scene as met her gaze on entering the chamber! The first thing that caught her eye, was her best black bonnet lying upon the floor, all crumpled up and torn into shreds, looking as though it had been used for a football by a parcel of boys.

She entered the room, and found a dress upon the floor, with numerous marks of rough handling upon it; while towels and other articles were scattered about in confusion.

The cloth upon the dressing-table had been pulled off, and the articles that were kept upon it were lying upon the floor, including a handsome vase, which, in the fall, had been shattered to pieces.

There was in the chamber a stuffed easy-chair, the covering of which was of worsted-work, wrought by Mrs.Preston when she was a young girl.