“She’s got to suffer some day. And her heart won’t break.”
“My God, though, Edward, do think what she is, think of her life. Think what. To have her husband driven in a cart and hanged.”
“Yes. But it’s surely a worse tragedy for him not to be hanged, and to go on living with her.”
“I know. It is. But she loves him.”
“Comic devils, women. Aren’t they?”
“I don’t understand you.”
“Well. Look here. I suppose he would be hanged?”
“I shouldn’t think there’s a doubt of it.”
“And the question is, how to get rid of Stukeley and spare Olivia?”
“No. How to spare Olivia. Settle them in Virginia, I say.”