When They Were In The Coach Both Observed A Profound Silence For Some Time; At Last, I Hope Charlotta, Said The Baron, You Have No Extraordinary Reasons To Be Troubled At Leaving St. Germains?

None, my lord, answered she, of so much moment to me as the fears my sudden removal is owing to your being dissatisfied with my conduct.

I flatter myself, resumed he, you are conscious of nothing which should authorize such an apprehension: - you have had an education which ought to inform you that persons of your sex and age are never to act in any material point of themselves: - but courts are places where this lesson is seldom practised; and tho' the virtues of the English queen and princess are a shining example to all about them, yet I am of opinion that innocence is safest in retirement.

As she was fully convinced in her mind that it was only owing to some jealousy of her behaviour that she had been taken from St. Germains, and also that it was on the score of Horatio, she would not enquire too deeply for fear of giving her father an opportunity of entering into examinations, which she thought she could not answer without either injuring the truth, or avowing what would not only have incensed him to a very great degree, but also put him upon measures which would destroy even the most distant hope of ever seeing Horatio more. He, on his side, would not acquaint her with the sentiments which the above-mentioned suggestions had inspired him with, thinking he should discover more of the truth by keeping a watchful eye over her behaviour without seeming to do so.

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