“Pray, how did he discover it?”
“I myself told him of my love for Reilly.”
“Did your father give his consent to that attachment?”
“Conditionally he did.”
“And pray, Miss Folliard, what were the conditions?”
“That Reilly should abjure his creed, and then no further obstacles should stand in the way of our union, he said.”
“Was ever that proposal mentioned to Reilly?”
“Yes, I mentioned it to him myself; but, well as he loved me, he would suffer to go into an early grave, he said, sooner than abandon his religion; and I loved him a thousand times better for his noble adherence to it.”
“Did he not save your father's life?”
“He did, and the life of a faithful and attached old servant at the same time.”