During that time she was said always to have been at the window holding up her baby.

And Mrs.Bolton was accused of cruelties which she certainly had not committed.

Some details of the affair made their way into the metropolitan Press,--so that the expected trial became one of those _causes celebres_ by which the public is from time to time kept alive to the value and charm of newspapers.
During all this John Caldigate was specially careful not to seclude himself from public view, or to seem to be afraid of his fellow-creatures.

He was constantly in Cambridge, generally riding thither on horseback, and on such occasions was always to be seen in Trumpington Street and Trinity Street.

Between him and the Boltons there was, by tacit consent, no intercourse whatever after the attempted imprisonment.