"Yes, papa;—very good."
"Had they heard anything there about—me; of this trial that is to come on?"
"Yes, papa; they had heard of it."
"And what did they say? You need not think that you will shock me by telling me. They cannot say worse there than people have said here,—or think worse."
"They don't think at all badly of you at Allington, papa."
"But they must think badly of me if the magistrates were right?"
"They suppose that there has been a mistake;—as we all think."
"They do not try men at the assizes for mistakes."
"That you have been mistaken, I mean;—and the magistrates mistaken."
"Both cannot have been mistaken, Grace."