[Shaking hands with him.] Good-bye. A clergyman always helps one so much to bear other people's misfortunes.

[Carbery goes out, and in a moment Robert
Boulger comes back into the room.

Lady Kelsey.

Is he better?

Boulger.

Oh, much. He'll be all right in a minute. [Lady Kelsey goes to the window, and he turns to Mrs. Crowley.] You are a brick to come here to-day, when they're all in such awful trouble.

Mrs. Crowley.

[With a little hesitation.] Did you really come away before the trial was ended?

Boulger.

Why, of course. What did you think? You don't imagine they'll convict him?