Chapter 1: August the Fourth. Till Four O’Clock

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌⁠The early part of the next week brought an answer to Cytherea’s last note of hope in the way of advertisement—not from a distance of hundreds of miles, London, Scotland, Ireland, the Continent—as Cytherea seemed to think it must, to be in keeping with the means adopted for obtaining it, but from a place in the neighbourhood of that in which she was living—a country mansion not twenty miles off. Th