 that you have the same features as
Miss Mowbray, with darker hair and eyes; if however our charming
Emmeline had a form less attractive, I have heard enough of her to be
convinced that her understanding and her heart justify all that Lord
Delamere or Mr. Godolphin have said of her.'

Lady Westhaven then expressed her wonder that she had heard nothing of
Delamere for some months.--'And it is most astonishing to me,' said she
to Emmeline, 'that the month of March should elapse without _your_
hearing of him.'

The distress of Emmeline now redoubled; and became so evident, that Lady
Westhaven, convinced there was something relative to her brother of
which she was ignorant, desired her to go with her into another room.

Incapable of falsehood, and detesting concealment, yet equally unwilling
to ruin the reputation of the unhappy Adelina with her brother's wife,
and having no authority to divulge a secret entrusted to her by her
friend, Emmeline now felt the cruellest conflict. All she could
determine was, to tell Lady Westhaven in general terms that Lord
Delamere had undoubtedly altered his intentions with regard to her, and
that the affair was, she believed, entirely and for ever at an end.

However anxious her Ladyship was to know from what strange cause such a
change of sentiments proceeded, she found Emmeline so extremely hurt
that she forbore at present to press the explanation. Full of concern,
she was returning to the company, having desired Emmeline to remain and
compose herself; when, as she was leaving the room, she said--

'But I forgot, my dear Emmeline, to ask you where you first became
acquainted with Mr. Godolphin?'

Again deep blushes dyed the cheeks of the fair orphan; for this question
led directly to those circumstances she could not relate.

'I knew him,' answered she, faultering as she spoke, 'at Bath.'

'And _is_ he,' enquired Lady Westhaven, 'so _very_ charming as his
brother and his family represent him?'

'He is indeed very agreeable,' replied she--'very much so. Extremely
pleasant in his manner, and in his person very like Lord Westhaven.'

'He never told us how he first became acquainted with _you_; and to tell
you the truth Emmeline, if I had not thought, indeed known, that you
was engaged to Lord Delamere, I should have thought Godolphin your
lover.'

This speech did not serve to hasten the composure Emmeline was trying to
regain. She attempted to laugh it off; but succeeded so ill
