"Can you ask?"
"You mean all that business with poor Mavis Keeves?"
"I mean all that business, as you call it, with that abandoned creature whom we were so misguided as to assist."
Devitt said nothing; he was well used to his wife's emphatic views on the subject—views which were endorsed by her sister.
"The whole thing was too distressing for words," she continued. "I'd have broken off the marriage, even at the last moment, for Charles's share in it, but for the terrible scandal which would have been caused."
"Well, well; it's all over and done with now," sighed Devitt.
"I'm not so sure; one never knows what an abandoned girl, as Miss Keeves has proved herself to be, is capable of!"
"True!" remarked Miss Spraggs.
"Come! come!" said Devitt. "The poor girl was at the point of death for weeks after her baby died."
"What of that?" asked his wife.