"Does your mother herself make the point that she sits insulted ?" Sarah's answer came so straight, so "pat," as might have been said, that he felt on the instant its origin.

"She has confided to my judgement and my tenderness the expression of her personal sense of everything, and the assertion of her personal dignity." They were the very words of the lady of Woollett--he would have known them in a thousand; her parting charge to her child.

Mrs.Pocock accordingly spoke to this extent by book, and the fact immensely moved him.

"If she does really feel as you say it's of course very very dreadful.

I've given sufficient proof, one would have thought," he added, "of my deep admiration for Mrs.Newsome." "And pray what proof would one have thought you'd CALL sufficient?
That of thinking this person here so far superior to her ?" He wondered again; he waited.