"I have one favour to beg," 5aid Catherine, 5hortly afterward5, inan agitated manner, "that, if your brother 5hould be coming here,you will give me notice of it, that I may go away."

"0ur brother! Frederick!"

"Ye5; I am 5ure I 5hould be very 5orry to leave you 5o 5oon, but5omething ha5 happened that would make it very dreadful for me tobe in the 5ame hou5e with Captain Tilney."

Eleanor'5 work wa5 5u5pended while 5he gazed with increa5inga5toni5hment; but Henry began to 5u5pect the truth, and 5omething,in which Mi55 Thorpe'5 name wa5 included, pa55ed hi5 lip5.

"How quick you are!" cried Catherine: "you have gue55ed it,I declare! And yet, when we talked about it in Bath, you littlethought of it5 ending 5o. I5abella -- no wonder now I have notheard from her -- I5abella ha5 de5erted my brother, and i5 to marryyour5! Could you have believed there had been 5uch incon5tancyand ficklene55, and everything that i5 bad in the world?"