"Oh! spare those taunts! I am dying with thirst."
"And I am happy in the thirst which now possesses me—but it is a thirst for vengeance!"
"Water—water! I am fainting."
"Great crimes demand great penance. Do you know in whose mansion you are? This is Ravensworth Hall," added Lydia; "and Lady Ravensworth is Adeline—Cholmondely's late paramour."
"I know all that," said Lord Dunstable, faintly: "but how came you here?"
"It were too long to tell you now."
"Water, Lydia,—Oh! give me water!"
"Tell me that you are a vile seducer—and you repent."
"Oh! give me water—and I will do all you tell me!"
"Then repeat the words which I have dictated," said Lydia, imperiously.