CHAPTER VII.
"Is that all?" said Maggie.
"All in this place, about Hermann Billing."
"I like him very much!" said Maggie drawing a deep sigh.
"Notwithstanding he was such an incorruptible judge!"
"Notwithstanding he was such a hard, cruel man, you should say," said Flora. "Ditto, you are ridiculous!"
"It is a great mistake, you must remember, to judge a man of one time by the lights or laws of another."
"There's a law of nature," said Flora, "in some people, which makes them dislike to kill their relations."