6/24 'It is that so many people should think me guilty,' he said to Mr.Bromley. In the first place, no doubt as to his truth ever touched her for a moment,--and not much doubt as to the result of the trial. It was to her an assured fact that John Caldigate was her husband, and she could not realise the idea that, such being the fact, a jury should say that he was not. But let all that be as it might, they two were one; and to adhere to him in every word, in every thought, in every little action, was to her the only line of conduct possible. She heard what Mr.Bromley said, she knew what her father-in-law thought, she was aware of the enthusiasm on her side of the folk at Folking. |