She was highly offended at this insult, and declared, “From that moment she banished him from her heart for ever.” And to prove that she set his love and his anger at equal defiance, she immediately ordered her carriage, and said, she “Was going to some of her acquaintance, whom she knew to have tickets, and with whom she would fix upon the habit she was to appear in at the masquerade; for nothing, unless she was locked up, should alter the resolution she had formed, of being there.” To remonstrate at that moment, Miss Woodley knew would be in vain—her coach came to the door, and she drove away. She did not return to dinner, nor till it was late in the evening; Lord Elmwood was at home, but he never once mentioned her name. She came home, after he had retired, in great spirits; and then, for the first time, in her whole life, appeared careless what he might think of her behaviour:—but her whole thoughts were occupied upon the business which had employed the chief of her day; and her dress engrossed all her conversation, as soon as Miss Woodley and she were alone. She told her, she had been shewn the greatest variety of beautiful and becoming dresses she had ever beheld; “and yet,” said she, “I have at last fixed upon a very plain one; but one I look so well in, that you will hardly know me, when I have it on.” “You are seriously then resolved to go,” said Miss Woodley, “if you hear no more on the subject from your guardian?” “Whether I do hear or not, Miss Woodley, I am equally resolved to go.” “But you know, my dear, he has desired you not—and you used always to obey his commands.” “As my guardian, I certainly did obey him; and I could obey him as a husband; but as a lover, I will not.” “Yet that is the way never to have him for a husband.” “As he pleases—for if he will not submit to be my lover, I will not submit to be his wife—nor has he the affection that I require in a husband.” Thus the old sentiments, repeated again and again, prevented a separation till towards morning.