the part of Miss Temple.

Comparatively composed, Ferdinand now suggested to Henrietta to quit
her drawing, which indeed was so advanced that it might be finished at
Ducie; and, never leaving her side, and watching every look, and hanging
on every accent of his old tutor, he even ventured to suggest that
they should visit the tower. The proposal, he thought, might lull any
suspicion that might have been excited on the part of Miss Temple.
Glastonbury expressed his gratification at the suggestion, and they
quitted the gallery, and entered the avenue of beech trees.

'I have heard so much of your tower, Mr. Glastonbury,' said Miss Temple,
'I am sensible, I assure you, of the honour of being admitted.'

The extreme delicacy that was a characteristic of Glastonbury preserved
Ferdinand Armine from the dreaded danger. It never for an instant
entered Glastonbury's mind that Henrietta was not Miss Grandi-He thought
it a little extraordinary, indeed, that she should arrive at Armine
only in the company of Ferdinand; but much might be allowed to plighted
lovers; besides, there might be some female companion, some aunt or
cousin, for aught he knew, at the Place. It was only his parents that
Ferdinand had said had not yet arrived. At all events, he felt at this
moment that Ferdinand, perhaps, even because he was alone with
his intended bride, had no desire that any formal introduction or
congratulations should take place; and only pleased that the intended
wife of his pupil should be one so beautiful, so gifted, and so
gracious, one apparently so worthy in every way of his choice and her
lot, Glastonbury relapsed into his accustomed ease and simplicity,
and exerted himself to amuse the young lady with whom he had become so
unexpectedly acquainted, and with whom, in all probability, it was
his destiny in future to be so intimate. As for Henrietta, nothing had
occurred in any way to give rise to the slightest suspicion in her mind.
The agitation of Ferdinand at this unexpected meeting between his tutor
and his betrothed was in every respect natural. Their engagement, as
she knew, was at present a secret to all; and although, under such
circumstances, she herself at first was disposed not to feel very much
at her ease, still she was so well acquainted with Mr. Glastonbury from
report, and he was so unlike the common characters of the censorious
world, that she was, from the first, far less annoyed than she otherwise
would have been,