For two hours she danced with Captain
Ewing, and ever and anon she kept saying to herself that she would
teach the world to know--and of all the world Mr. Cumming especially-
-that she might be lead, but not driven.
Then about four o'clock she went home, and as she attempted to
undress herself in her own room she burst into violent tears and
opened her heart to her sister-- "Oh, Fanny, I do love him, I do love
him so dearly! and now he will never come to me again!"
Maurice stood still with his back against the wall, for the full two
hours of Marian's exhibition, and then he said to his aunt before he
left--"I hope you have now seen enough; you will hardly mention her
name to me again." Miss Jack groaned from the bottom of her heart
but she said nothing. She said nothing that night to any one; but
she lay awake in her bed, thinking, till it was time to rise and
dress herself. "Ask Miss Marian to come to me," she said to the
black girl who came to assist her. But it was not till she had sent
three times, that Miss Marian obeyed the summons.
At three o'clock on the following day Miss Jack arrived at her own
hall door in Spanish Town.
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