"Good heavens!" said Augustin.
"Good heavens!" echoed the bishop.
"I haven't," affirmed Titania, dreadfully. "No such thing has happened in our family since the time of Charles the Second, which was lamentable but natural, and has long since been forgiven. I mistrust the general attitude of all these men, bishop. I mistrust it!"
"Certainly they seem in great distress," said the bishop.
Titania rose and looked awful.
"Only upon one supposition can I account for it, bishop. This is their remorse. They are remorseful. They have treated her badly, and she has fled from them in her shame and will not see them!"
"Ha!" said the bishop, "there is something in that!"
"A great deal in it," boomed Titania, in her deepest tone of tragedy. "It explains everything."
But Bradstock said:
"Infernal nonsense, Titania! Bishop, I am surprised at you. They can't all be remorseful."