"Cora, don't you think there is some mystery about those brothers, which you do not understand?"
"I know there is."
"Were they both players?"
"I believe they once were."
"Have you told your father of the persecutions of Mr. Parris?"
"Not all."
"Why not?"
"It would have done no good, and would have caused him unnecessary annoyance," she answered meekly.
"Just like you, Cora, always afraid of making some one trouble."
Her eyes were on the brooklet and filled with tears, as she remembered how happy Adelpha Leisler had been when at Salem, and how heavily the hand of affliction had fallen upon her.