The music-master vanished very rapidly, and the two ladies, instead
of being frightened or falling into hysterics, as their betters
would have done, laughed at the odious monster's discomfiture, as
they called him. "Such a man as that set himself up against my
Howard!" said Morgiana, with becoming pride; but it was agreed
between them that Howard should know nothing of what had occurred,
for fear of quarrels, or lest he should be annoyed. So when he came
home not a word was said; and only that his wife met him with more
warmth than usual, you could not have guessed that anything
extraordinary had occurred. It is not my fault that my heroine's
sensibilities were not more keen, that she had not the least
occasion for sal-volatile or symptom of a fainting fit; but so it
was, and Mr. Howard Walker knew nothing of the quarrel between his
wife and her instructor until--

Until he was arrested next day at the suit of Benjamin Baroski for
two hundred and twenty guineas, and, in default of payment, was
conducted by Mr. Tobias Larkins to his principal's lock-up house in
Chancery Lane.



CHAPTER V.



IN WHICH MR. WALKER FALLS INTO DIFFICULTIES, AND MRS. WALKER MAKES
MANY FOOLISH ATTEMPTS TO RESCUE HIM.

I hope the beloved reader is not silly enough to imagine that Mr.