"You can do no good by seeing him," said her brother.
"But I will see him. You need not scowl at me as though you wished to strike me. I have gone through that which makes me different from other women, and I care not what they say of me. Violet understands it all;—but you understand nothing."
"Be calm, Laura," said her sister-in-law, "and Oswald will do all that can be done."
"But they will hang him."
"Nonsense!" said her brother. "He has not been as yet committed for his trial. Heaven knows how much has to be done. It is as likely as not that in three days' time he will be out at large, and all the world will be running after him just because he has been in Newgate."
"But who will look after him?"
"He has plenty of friends. I will see that he is not left without everything that he wants."
"But he will want money."
"He has plenty of money for that. Do you take it quietly, and not make a fool of yourself. If the worst comes to the worst—"
"Oh, heavens!"