"Leave me to my resources," said he, "and it will go hard or I will
so manage Charles as to disentangle him from the consequences of her
influence over him. But the families, mother, must not be for the
present permitted to visit again. On the contrary, it is better for our
purposes that they should not see each other as formerly, nor resume
their intimacy. If you suffer your passions to overcome you, even in our
own family, the consequence is that you prevent us both from playing our
game as we ought, and as we shall do. Leave Charles to me; I shall make
O'Connor of use, too; but above all things do not breathe a syllable to
any one of them of my having been thrown off. I think, as it is, I have
damped her ardor for him a little, and if she had not been obstinate and
foolishly romantic, I would have extinguished it completely. As it is,
I told her to leave the truth of what I mentioned to her respecting him,
to time, and if she does I shall rest satisfied. Will you now be guided
by me, my dear mother?"
"I will endeavor to do so," she replied; "but it will be a terrible
restraint upon me, and I scarcely know how I shall be able to keep
myself calm.
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