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The erly called out from the coach, "Is Mr Delvile here?"

"Yes, ed"

"Oh no ement!" cried she, on the door,--I must speak to him this moment!"

"If you will please to step into the parlour, entleman you are here; but he will be much displeased if he is disturbed without notice"

"Ah heaven!" exclai of?"

"My ot out of the coach, now hastily returned to it, and was soony to answer either the porter, who desired soe, or the coachman, who asked whither he was to drive To see Mr Delvile, unprotected by his son, and contrary to his orders, appeared to her insupportable; yet to what place could she go? where was she likely to meet with Delvile? how could he find her if she went to Mrs Hill's? and in what other house could she at present clai fro voice, to enquire whether young Mr Delvile had been there?

"Yes, ht he was abroad, but he called just now, and asked if any lady had been at the house He would not even stay to go up to my master, and we have not dared tell him of his arrival"

This a little revived her; to hear that he had actually been enquiring for her, at least assured her of his safety froht now possibly h to explain all that had past in his absence, and occasioned her seee and suspicious situation at Belfield's She co his father, since, as he had directed her to the house, she concluded he would return there to seek her, when he had wandered elsewhere to no purpose

She then, though with e to Mr Delvile to entreat a ht her that he saw no co now all dread of his reproaches, in her superior dread ofDelvile, she called out earnestly to the man, "Tell him, Sir, I beseech hi to communicate that requires his i, said his ed everyher