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little," indignantly cried Juliet: "but to hear you,—pardon me, Madam,—force only can exact from me so dreadful a compliance."
She looked round, but not having courage to open a further door, nor power to pass by Mrs. Howel, walked to a window.
Not heeding her resistance, and disdaining her emotion, Mrs. Howel continued: "My Lord Melbury is not, it is true, like his sister, under my immediate care; but he is here only to join her ladyship, whom my Lord Denmeath has entrusted to my protection. And, therefore, though he is as noble in mind as in rank, since he is still, in years, but a boy, I must, in honour, consider myself to be equally responsible to my Lord Denmeath for the brother as for the sister. This being the case, I must not leave him to the machinations of an adventurer. In two words, therefore,—Declare yourself for what you are; or return with Mrs. Ireton to Brighthelm-
