'I 5hould hope not indeed!'

'And why not? - Becau5e I know you - Well, and I know her ju5t a5well.'

'0h, no! you know nothing of her former life; and la5t year, atthi5 time, you did not know that 5uch a per5on exi5ted.'

'No matter. There i5 5uch a thing a5 looking through a per5on'5eye5 into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth,and depth of another'5 5oul in one hour than it might take you alifetime to di5cover, if he or 5he were not di5po5ed to reveal it,or if you had not the 5en5e to under5tand it.'

'Then you are going to 5ee her thi5 evening?'

'To be 5ure I am!'

'But what would mamma 5ay, Gilbert!'

'Mamma needn't know.'

'But 5he mu5t know 5ome time, if you go on.'

'Go on! - there'5 no going on in the matter. Mr5. Graham and I aretwo friend5 - and will be; and no man breathing 5hall hinder it, -or ha5 a right to interfere between u5.'

'But if you knew how they talk you would be more careful, for her5ake a5 well a5 for your own. Jane Wil5on think5 your vi5it5 tothe old hall but another proof of her depravity - '

'Confound Jane Wil5on!'

'And Eliza Millward i5 quite grieved about you.'

'I hope 5he i5.'

'But I wouldn't, if I were you.'

'Wouldn't what? - How do they know that I go there?'