ery movement
and change of position, calculating how he might dart out when the
window was opened--having forgotten for the moment that Jack Wentworth,
as well as the companion who kept immediate watch over him, was in the
room.

"She'll come to herself presently," said Dr Marjoribanks. "We'll carry
her up-stairs. Yes, I know you don't approve of her, Miss Wentworth;
nobody said you were to approve of her. Not that I think she's a
responsible moral agent myself," said the Doctor, lifting her up in
his vigorous arms; "but in the mean time she has to be brought to
life. Keep out of my way, Elsworthy; you should have looked better
after the little fool. If she's not accountable for her actions, _you_
are," he went on with a growl, thrusting away with his vigorous
shoulder the badly-hung frame of Rosa's uncle, who was no match for
the Doctor. Thus the poor little girl was carried away in a kind of
procession, Miss Leonora going first. "Not that I think her worth all
this fuss, the vain little fool," said Miss Leonora; "she'll come to
herself, no fear of her;" but, notwithstanding her protest, the
strong-minded woman led the way. When the room was cleared, the
gentlemen who remained took their seats mechanically, and stared at
each other. In the shame and confusion of the moment nobody could find
anything to say, and the Curate was magnanimous, and did not take
advantage of his triumph. The silence was broken by the Rector, who
rose up solemnly from his chair to speak. Probably no one in the room
had suffered so acutely as Mr Morgan; his face was crimson, his eyes
suffused and angry. Frank Wentworth rose involuntarily at the same
moment, expecting, he could not tell why, to be addressed, but sat
down again in a little confusion when he found that the Rector had
turned his eyes in a totally different direction. Mr Morgan put the
lamp out of the way, that he might be able to transfix with the full
glow of his angry eyes the real offender, who sat only half conscious,
absorbed with his own terror, by the lawyer's side.

"Sir!" said the Rector, in a tone which, severe as his voice was by
nature, nobody had ever heard from his lips before, "you have put us
all in a most ridiculous and painful position to-night. I don't know
whether you are capable of feeling the vileness of your own misconduct
as regards the unhappy girl who has just been carried out of the room,
but you certainly shall not leave the house without hearing--"