"You are here under an assumed name. I was told that Mrs. Barton's boarder was named Robinson."
"I am passing under that name. You know why."
"Yes, I do know why. You are under the ban of the law. You are afraid of being arrested and brought to trial a second time."
"I know there is danger of it, and of course I shrink from it."
"Then why do you come here? Are you mad?"
"After ten years I wished to see my wife once more. I am a sick man. I came to her to be nursed back to health."
"Take care, or when you leave here it will be for a less desirable boarding-place!" said the squire, in a menacing tone.
"You mean the prison?"
"Yes; that is what I mean."
"No one in Lakeville knows who I am. Why should I fear?"