“If your niece is really sane, which I have some reason to suppose, I trust that her past danger will henceforth teach her to pay a little more deference to the established usages of society than I hear she has lately done.” --Mr. Mordaunt to Mrs. Delavel in Rosella |

As Sophia Beauclerc, our heroine Rosella, and their servant Nancy travel through Scotland, escorted by young Mr. Oberne, Sophia is of course drawn to the ruins of every castle and every sublime sight of nature. This section of the novel is part travelogue, which would have been great for Regency armchair travelers.
An encounter with the poverty-stricken locals gives Rosella a chance to perform an act of charity for a poor widow and her ten children. As I’ve written elsewhere, having the hero be entranced at the sight of the heroine performing an act of charity was a frequent trope in novels of this era, and Charlton plays this straight; the scene is not handled as say, Austen handles the same idea in Emma, with Emma being deluded about Mr. Elton's feelings for Harriet. By now the reader is pretty certain that Mr. Oberne is developing feelings for Rosella.