"Nay," said Lady Emily, "I will leave Evandale (and here he comes) to plead his own cause."
"Stay, stay, for God's sake," said Edith, endeavouring to detain her.
"Not I, not I," said the young lady, making her escape; "the third person makes a silly figure on such occasions. When you want me for breakfast, I will be found in the willow-walk by the river."
As she tripped out of the room, Lord Evandale entered—"Good-morrow, brother, and goodbye till breakfast-time," said the lively young lady; "I trust you will give Miss Bellenden some good reasons for disturbing her rest so early in the morning."
And so saying, she left them together without waiting a reply.
"And now, my Lord," said Edith, "may I desire to know the meaning of your singular request to meet you here at so early an hour?"
She was about to add, that she hardly felt herself excuseable in having complied
