"I was fearing it."
"Why?"
"I heard tell that Jane was at Harlow. What is she doing there, my dear?"
"Dr. Sewell told me something about Jane."
"Oh! He told you at last, did he! He ought to have told you long ago."
"Has he known it a long time?"
"He has—if he knows anything."
"And you—mother?"
"I was not sure as long as he kept quiet, and hummed and ha'ed about it. But I said enough to Jane on two occasions to let her know I suspected treachery both to her own life and soul and to thee."
"And to my unborn children, mother."