ABSTRACT
At six o'clock he rose to take his departure, giving as his excuse that he had promised an aunt of his to accompany her to chapel. Before leaving he promised them, as a consolation for the grief they showed at parting with his company, that he would, in the course of a week or two, come and stop a few days. " Only I am afraid I may annoy you," he added, " for sometimes my friends will not let me leave them, and that would be keeping you up to a very late hour."
