Chapter iii. Swedenborg and the Sibyl. My narrative may move on again from the point at which it paused in the first chapter. Mary and I (as you may remember) had left the bailiff alone at the decoy, and had set forth on our way together to Dermody’s cottage. As we approached the garden gate, I saw a servant from the house waiting there. He carried a message from my mother — a message for me. “My mistress wishes you to go home, Master George, as soon as you can. A letter has come by the coach. My master means to take a post-chaise from London, and sends word that we may expect him in the course of the day.” Mary’s attentive face saddened when she heard those words. “Must you really go away, George,” she whispered, “before you see what I have got waiting for you at home?” I remembere