Ah!... Your companionship would have been so good for Clare. A tactfully restraining influence....
Mrs. O’Farrel.
I doubt it. I’m too much in sympathy with the child.
Dean.
But you wouldn’t encourage her to tell every one she meets—including the Bishop—that she is an Atheist, or ride astride through the town without the formality of—er—divided skirts....
Mrs. O’Farrel.
No—perhaps not. (She lowers her voice.) I should first of all put a stop to her galavantin’ about every other day with Michael.
Dean.
Really, my dear Eileen, I think the friendship between Michael Cosway and Clare is wholly charming and can only do the child good. Surely you don’t——
Mrs. O’Farrel.