7/18 I can't fancy that any jury will believe that.' 'I hope not.' 'And yet, Madame,'-- the Squire was in the habit of calling his wife Madame when he intended to insinuate anything against her,--'has got it settled in her head that this young woman isn't his wife at all. A man ought to be considered innocent till he has been found guilty. I shall go over and see him one of these days, and say a kind word to her.' There was at that moment some little difference of opinion, which was coming to a head in reference to a very delicate matter. When the conversations above related took place, the Babington wedding had been fixed to take place in a week's time. |