Chapter 27: Time for Reflection

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌​​‌​​⁠Mr. Lovely left the Great House enraged with the owner, with Society and, to say truth, with his own heroick self.

I do not think he was very wildly in love with Miss Courteen, but I do believe he was sincerely vexed with himself for letting her fall into Vernon's power. For a moment he seriously pondered the wisdom of warning her mother of the lengths to which the affair had gone, but upon reflect