You dare not, you cannot deny, that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing them from each other--of exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability, and the other to its derision for disappointed hopes, and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind. _That_ will make your ladyship's situation at present more pitiable; but it will have no effect on me. Almost as soon as I entered the house, I singled you out as the companion of my future life.