END OF FOURTH BOOK
FIFTH BOOK
THE REPARATION
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
"VICTOR! VICTOR! MY VICTOR!"
"Good heavens, how was I to know that things would turn out so badly?"
It was the Governor, alone with Stowell in the Deemster's room, at the end of the second day of the Court of General Gaol Delivery.
"As for you, what have you to reproach yourself with? So far as this case is concerned you have done nothing that is wrong or irregular. The girl was guilty. You gave her a fair trial. The law required that she should be condemned. You had to condemn her. Then why take things so tragically?"
"But Fenella?"
"She will get over it. Of course she will. What sensible woman is going to throw away the happiness of a life-time because of something that happened before she came on to the scene?"
"You heard what she said, Sir?"