I become alarmed, and unreasonably jealous – Mysterious circumstances occur, which inflame my mind more than ever – My doubts are removed, but return in greater force – I ascertain, beyond all question, that a female has been privately brought into the Priory.

I have sometimes numbered among my failings, the habit of attaching a secret and mysterious motive to every action, which appears rather extraordinary. On this occasion, I certainly perplexed myself not a little, in trying to discover the reasons, which had induced Mr. Haversham so strongly to oppose my attachment to a young lady, whom he had never seen. A certain jealous sensation of alarm was playing round my heart, which told me, notwithstanding his years, and the horror he had not unfrequently expressed for all illicit intercourse, that if he had seen Adela, I could easily have persuaded myself, that he was disposed to be my rival. As things were, that was quite out of the question; but I could find no tolerably plausible motive, for the singular proposition which he had taken upon himself to make.