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 yourself: He tells you he is in love, or unhappy, it is the same thing—nay; he owned he was unhappy about others; and is anybody unhappy about another, unless they are in love with them? and at the very next word, he asks innocently, pour soul! if my Lady Isabella is missing—to be sure, said Matilda, thy observations are not totally without foundation—Isabella's flight amazes me: The curiosity of this stranger is very particular—yet Isabella never concealed a thought from me—So she told you, said Bianca, to fish out your secrets—but who knows, Madam, but this stranger may be some Prince in disguise?—do, Madam, let me open the window, and ask him a few questions. No, replied, Matilda, I will ask him myself, if he knows aught of Isabella: He is not worthy I should converse farther with him. She was going to open the casement, when they heard the bell ring at the postern-gate of the castle, which is on the right hand of the tower, where