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I have a visit to my place
on the _tapis_, and when this is the case my heart is full of sad
memories; my tenants, too, under my late steward's _regime_, have been
extremely disaffected; so I take the Great Northern at sunrise on
to-morrow for Northumberland. I have been feeling very much lately
the burden of my lonely life, the outcome as it is, of my dear
father's blighted hopes; grief-stricken; desertion."
"Pardon me, you are under some promise of celibacy to your father, I
believe."
"I am."
"It was no oath?"
"No, I was glad by a promise to relieve his poor troubled mind, and my
knowledge of women made it easy."
"Grant me still another question. I am not, I need scarcely say,
actuated by mere idle curiosity?"
"Any question you like, Douglas."
"Have you never met a woman who has caused you to regret your
promise."
"Never!"
But a new and strange feeling stirred his heart-strings, that perhaps,
had he met the child Vaura, now the woman, he could not answer so.
There was a pause on his answering Douglas, with the single
word--"Never.


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