To go with this indictment ringing in his ears, would amount to a confession and flight.
Mrs.Julaper consoled him with might and main.

She was a sympathetic and trusting spirit, and knew poor Philip Feltram, in her simplicity, better than the shrewdest profligate on earth could have known him.

She cried with him in his misery.

She was fired with indignation by these suspicions, and still more at what followed.
Sir Bale showed no signs of relenting.

It might have been that he was rather glad of so unexceptionable an opportunity of getting rid of Feltram, who, people thought, knew something which it galled the Baronet's pride that he should know.
The Baronet had another shorter and sterner interview with Feltram in his study.