'I know indeed,' said Virginia.
'We may have been!'
'Not designingly.'
'Indeed not. But harsh it may be named, if the one innocent is to be the sufferer.'
'The child can in no sense be adjudged guilty.'
'It is Victor's child.'
'He adores the child.'
Wheels were in mute motion within them; and presently the remark was tossed-up:
'In his coming to us, it is possible to see paternal solicitude'
Thence came fruit of reflection: