ABSTRACT

‘I CAN submit to this no longer,’ said Mr. Moody. ‘Indeed, Miss Moody, I cannot reconcile your behaviour to that discretion which I always believed you possessed of. To be seen, as you may have been, by any of your neighbours, walking or sitting in the garden at so late an hour, with a gentleman, must sully the most established character – unless the footing you and Mr. Tickle are on, will justify it.’