"She'll be wondering where you are."
"No; she'll be thinking of nothing in the world but him. She might have cared for half a dozen of us, but one seems to have been worse than useless!"
"That's because you gave help, instead of asking it."
He bent his lips into a wry smile. "But I feel I've been cheated, all the same. And I'm a nasty, evil-tempered brute, but I've had the grace to thank God for delivering Theresa from my hands."
"And the day may come when she reproaches Him for it. Is the lass blind or daft?"
"Now, Janet!"
"It's time you went to bed."
"I'm going. I think I'll have to tell old Webb he mustn't come here. I was going to stay with him this Easter, but—well, I've changed my mind! I'll have to let him know I can't leave home, and tell him not to come here. I hardly think it's safe for him. Heaven knows what he'll do next. Good-night."
"Good-night, Alec."
"I don't know what I'd do without you," he said awkwardly.