If I were sure you were safely in Newport, I should feel no anxiety." "You seem to have as bad an opinion of Washington as Mr.Gore," said Madeleine, with a contemptuous smile.

"He gave me the same advice, though he was afraid to tell me why.

I am not a child.

I am thirty years old, and have seen something of the world.

I am not afraid, like Mr.
Gore, of Washington malaria, or, like you, of Mr.Ratcliffe's influence.
If I fall a victim I shall deserve my fate, and certainly I shall have no cause to complain of my friends.