“After a long time when you returned not to me,” replied Gray, “I descended the staircase, and found you lying in the passage just by the door which you had evidently been trying to escape by.”
Ada was deeply thankful that Jacob Gray himself put this interpretation on the circumstance of finding the door open, and she said,—
“My feelings overcame me.”
“Ay—Yes. The sight must have been terrible!” said Gray. “Come, Ada; ’tis a very dark night—attire yourself in the less cumbrous and safer garments of a boy, and let us leave here.”
“You forget your promise,” said Ada.
“My promise? What promise?”
“You said you would tell me all.”
“And so will I at the proper time and season, which, believe me, will be the sooner for what has chanced this night.”
“And so am I deceived again,” said Ada.
“Girl,” said Gray, “you are young enough yet to wait a short time. There will come a day when justice shall be done you, and the cup of my revenge will be filled to the overflowing! It will be very soon, Ada.”