em
off. If unrepented in this world"----

She was proceeding--but the anxiety her friend endured, would not suffer
her to be free from the apprehension, that, notwithstanding the positive
assurance of her guardian, if he and Lord Frederick should meet, the
duel might still take place; she therefore rang the bell and enquired if
Mr. Dorriforth was still at home?--the answer was--"He had rode out. You
remember," said Miss Woodley, "he told you he should dine from home."
This did not, however, dismiss her fears, and she dispatched two
servants different ways in pursuit of him, acquainting them with her
suspicions, and charging them to prevent the duel. Sandford had also
taken his precautions; but though he knew the time, he did not know the
exact place of their appointment, for that Lord Elmwood had forgot to
enquire.

The excessive alarm which Miss Milner discovered upon this occasion, was
imputed by the servants, and by others who were witnesses of it, to her
affection for Lord Frederick; while none but Miss Woodley knew, or had
the most distant suspicion of the real cause.

Mrs. Horton and Miss Fenton, who were sitting together expatiating on
the duplicity of their own sex in the instance just before them, had,
notwithstanding the interest of the discourse, a longing desire to break
it off; for they were impatient to see this poor frail being whom they
were loading with their censure. They longed to see if she would have
the confidence to look them in the face: them, to whom she had so often
protested, that she had not the smallest attachment to Lord Frederick,
but from motives of vanity.

These ladies heard with infinite satisfaction that dinner had been
served, but met Miss Milner at the table with a less degree of pleasure
than they had expected; for her mind was so totally abstracted from any
consideration of _them_, that they could not discern a single blush, or
confused glance, which their presence occasioned. No, she had before
them divulged nothing of which she was ashamed; she was only ashamed
that what she had said was not true. In the bosom of Miss Woodley alone
was that secret entrusted which could call a blush into her face, and
before her, she _did_ feel confusion--before the gentle friend, to whom
she had till this time communicated all her faults without
embarrassment, she now cast down her eyes in shame.

Soon after the dinner was removed, Lord Elmwood entered; and that
gallant young nobleman decl