Chapter 17

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌⁠THE STEP-DAME’S SUSPICIONS BEING AWAKENED, SHE LAYS A SNARE FOR OUR ADVENTURER, FROM WHICH HE IS DELIVERED BY THE INTERPOSITION OF HIS GOOD GENIUS.

Though the husband swallowed the bait without further inquiry, the penetration of the wife was not so easily deceived. That same dialogue in Wilhelmina’s apartment, far from allaying, rather inflamed her suspicion; because, in the like emergency, she he