"She is not a traitor yet."
Sister Eliza spoke next. "But if you do not take care, she soon will be a traitor, Sister Catherine. I too have heard something of this before; she is in love with that doctor. You should not have allowed her to go to his sister's house at Farnham. I thought at the time it was very imprudent."
"It was the inevitable, Sister Eliza—the girl was dying," replied the Chief.
"It would have been safer had she died."
"Perhaps so; but the question before is, what is to be done now?" Catherine spoke sharply. She was considerably nettled at the cool and unfeeling way in which the sisters entered on the discussion, though she knew that it was unreasonable on her part to expect anything else.
It was Susan's turn to speak, and she did so in an irritatingly calm and business-like voice.
"I can only see one answer to that question."
"Well!"
"Mary must be put out of the way."