 Montreville, gravely, 'no light
conversation on the subject of Miss Mowbray. She is under my care; and I
must have her treated with propriety.'

His Lordship immediately changed the discourse, and soon after
complaining of being fatigued, retired to his chamber.







Lord Montreville, whose first object was his son, had observed, with
some alarm, the immediate impression he seemed to have received from the
beauty of Emmeline.

The next day, he made some farther remarks on his attention to her when
they met at dinner, which gave him still more uneasiness; and he accused
himself of great indiscretion in having thrown an object, whose
loveliness he could not help acknowledging, in the way of Delamere,
whose ardent and impetuous temper he knew so well. This gave his
behaviour to Emmeline an air of coldness, and even of displeasure, which
prevented her summoning courage to speak to him in the morning of the
day after his arrival: and the evening afforded her no opportunity; for
Lord Montreville, determined to keep her as much as possible out of the
sight of Delamere, did not send for her down to supper, and had
privately resolved to remove her as soon as possible to some other
residence.

Thus his apprehensions lest his son should form an attachment
prejudicial to his ambitious views, produced in his Lordship's mind a
resolution in regard to placing more properly his orphan niece, which no
consideration, had it related merely to herself, would probably have
effected.

At supper, Delamere enquired eagerly for his 'lovely cousin.' To which
Lord Montreville drily answered, 'that she did not, he believed, sup
below.'

But the manner of this enquiry, and the anxious looks Delamere directed
towards the door, together with his repeated questions, increased all
Lord Montreville's fears.

He went to bed out of humour rather with himself than his son; and
rising early the next morning, enquired for Miss Mowbray.

Miss Mowbray was walked out, as was her custom, very early, no one knew
whither.

He learned also that Mr. Delamere was gone out with his gun without
Fitz-Edward; who not being very fond of field sports, had agreed to join
him at a later hour.

He immediately fancied that Delamere and Emmeline might meet; and the
pain such a suspicion brought with it, was by him, who had hardly ever
felt an hour's uneasiness, considered as so great an evil, that he
determined to put an end to it as soon as possible.

After an hasty breakfast in his own room, he summoned Maloney to attend
