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Their first tumultuous joy having in some measure subsided, Agnes

requested to hear the adventures of Lucy, who attempted to relate

them; but the reader knows that it was a history with which no

one was entirely acquainted, and to Lucy herself there was much

that was inexplicable, particularly the fatal coincidence of the

carriage being at that place precisely at the moment that Lucy

had gone there by an extraordinary chance. With regard to this,

the mother and daughter lost themselves in conjecture, without

even approaching the real cause. As to the principal author of

this plot, however, they neither of them doubted that it was Don

Roderick.

"Ah, that firebrand!" cried Agnes; "but his hour will come. God

will reward him according to his works, and then he will know--"