"And that was in 1794?"
"Yes, yes; but he might have been here before, child."
"That is true, and I hope it may all turn out to have been only a strange mistake."
"But if it does not, Hesden?" said his mother, after a moment's thought. "What do you mean to do?"
"I mean first to go to the bottom of this matter and discover the truth."
"And then—if—if there was—anything wrong?"
"Then the wrong must be righted."
"But that—why, Hesden, it might turn us out of doors! It might make us beggars!"
"We should at least be honest ones."
"But Hesden, think of me—think—" she began.