"My dear—don't be a hypocrite! You and I know well enough what's wrong with that child."
"Perhaps." The lady's eyes filled with tears. "But you forget that by all accounts Mr. Helbeck is an altered man. From something Laura said to Molly last week, it seems that Mrs. Fountain even is now quite afraid of him—as she used to be."
"If she would only die—good lady!—her brother might go to his own place," said the doctor impatiently.
"To the Jesuits?"
The doctor nodded.
"Did he actually tell you that was his intention?"
"No. But I guessed. And that Trinity man Leadham, who went over, gave me to understand the other day what the end would probably be. But not while his sister lives."
"I should hope not!" said Mrs. Friedland.
After a pause, she turned to her husband.
"John! you know you liked him!"