"She is still living among her friends at Pembridge?"
"She is."
"And wants for nothing?"
"And wants for nothing, so far as I know."
"That is well. And she still believes that Jacob Lloyd was her father?"
"I am not aware that anyone has undeceived her on that point."
"Why should I be the first to undeceive her?"
"Jacob Lloyd is dead. You are her father, and you are now a free man."
"Precisely so. I am a free man because I have broken my prison bonds. I am a free man who is liable to recapture at any moment. I am a free man to whose name the stain of murder still clings."
"But Eleanor would never believe you to be guilty, as I have never believed you, to be guilty."