ABSTRACT
Montgomery, while he tried to stifle every suggestion which arose in his mind that he was perhaps groundlessly sanguine, was collecting resolution to bid farewell to Ethelinde with calmness, as only for a short time. Sir Edward felt with almost equal poignancy, the pain he was yet compelled to undergo of parting from her also; and in order that her future situation might give him as little uneasiness as possible, at least while she remained with Miss Newenden, he determined before he went to speak to his sister fully, and endeavour to convince her of the regard she owed to the opinion of the world, without hinting that the presence of Ethelinde made that attention more requisite. He had not the least suspicion of the designs entertained by Woolaston: but he proposed talking to Davenant, which, as his former guardian, he thought he had a right to do, to beg that he would not bring visitors to Miss Newenden’s house, whose characters rendered them improper companions for two single women.
