1. FROM THE SIXTH TO THE THIRTEENTH OF
JANUARYManston had evidently resolved to do nothing in a hurry.
This much was plain, that his earnest desire and intention was
to raise in Cytherea's bosom no feelings of permanent aversion to
him. The instant after the first burst of disappointment had
escaped him in the hotel at Southampton, he had seen how far better
it would be to lose her presence for a week than her respect for
ever.
'She shall be mine; I will claim the young thing yet,' he
insisted. And then he seemed to reason over methods for compassing
that object, which, to all those who were in any degree acquainted
with the recent event, appeared the least likely of possible
contingencies.
He returned to Knapwater late the next day, and was preparing to
call on Miss Aldclyff
