Hewet remarked that there could be no doubt as to the lady’s profession.

With frantic exclamations such as these, and with many others in which fear, grief, and rage, were strangely blended, the panic–stricken wretch gradually subdued his first loud outcry, until it had softened down into a low despairing moan, chequered now and then by a howl, as, going over such papers as were left in the chest, he discovered some new loss. With very little excuse for departing so abruptly, Ralph left him, and, greatly disappointing the loiterers outside the house by telling them there was nothing the matter, got into the coach, and was driven to his own home.