He harangued those about him with furious indignation.
'If any man's got a word to say against Emma Vine, let him come an' say it to me, that's all I Now look 'ere, all o' you, I know that girl, and I know that anyone as talks like that about her tells a damned lie.' 'Most like it's Mutimer himself as has set it goin',' observed someone.
In five minutes all who remained in the room were convinced that Mutimer had sent an agent to the meeting for the purpose of assailing Emma Vine's good name.

Mr.Keene had already taken his departure, and no suspicious character was discernible; a pity for the evening might have ended in a picturesque way.
But Daniel Dabbs went home to his brother's public-house, obtained note-paper and an envelope, and forthwith indited a brief epistle which he addressed to the house in Highbury.

It had no formal commencement, and ended with 'Yours, etc.' Daniel demanded an assurance that his former friend had not instigated certain vile accusations against Emma, and informed him that whatever answer was received would be read aloud at next Sunday's meeting.
The one not wholly ignoble incident in that evening's transactions..