Page:The Wanderer (1814 Volume 2).pdf/273

 "I'll undertake that with all my heart, my dear; and you'll be sure to have the money for what you like best, because it's a man who is to be your paymaster."

"A man?"

"Yes; for Lady Aurora says, that though she shall pay the whole herself ultimately, the draft upon the banker, for the present, must be in the name of her brother."

Ellis changed colour, and, with far deeper emotion, now walked about her room, now seated herself, now hid her face with her hands, and now ejaculated, "How—how shall I decide!"

She then enquired from whom Mr. Giles had received the two guineas and the half guinea which he had put upon the table.

From Mr. Tedman.

Mr. Tedman, she said, was the only person of the whole set who owed her nothing; but to whom, on the contrary, she was herself indebted; not having