He was supported no doubt by the full confidence of his father, by the friendliness of the parson, and by the energetic assurances of partisans who were all on his side,--such as Mr.Ralph Holt, the farmer.

While Caldigate had been in Cambridge waiting for his wife's escape, Holt and one or two others were maturing a plan for breaking into Puritan Grange, and restoring the wife to her husband.

All this supported him.

Without it he could hardly have carried himself as he did.

But with all this, still he was very wretched.