ABSTRACT
It was well for me that our interview had been brief. Henrietta joined some of her female acquaintance, and I was in a moment alone. She probably thought it best to leave me for a short time to myself, and believed that any comment she might make on what she had seen, and how she felt, would for the instant be impertinent and unacceptable. I followed Clifford with my eye. It was still the same glistering vision that had for ever thrown me into shade. Presently he disappeared. I drew back all my intellectual powers into the chambers of my bosom. I examined anew the state of my heart. /
