"But you will, I dare say, when I have done. Well; what do you think my senior duenna did,--the female one, I mean? She took my own carriage, and posted off after Mr. Palliser as hard as ever she could, leaving the male duenna on the watch. I was dancing as hard as I could, but I knew what was going on all the time as well as though I had heard them talking. Of course Mr. Palliser came after me. I don't know what else he could do, unless, indeed, he had left me to my fate. He came there, and behaved so well,--so much like a perfect gentleman. Of course I went home, and I was prepared to tell him everything, if he spoke a word to me,--that I intended to leave him, and that cart-ropes should not hold me!"
"To leave him, Cora!"

"But you will, I dare say, when I have done. Well; what do you think my senior duenna did? She set off after Mr. Palliser as hard as she could. Of course Mr. Palliser came after me. He came there, and behaved so well - so much like a perfect gentleman. Of course I went home, and I was prepared to tell him everything, if he spoke a word to me - that I intended to leave him!"
"To leave him, Cora!"
