"The agent was appealed to--did nothing.

Then the clergyman wrote to him direct, and got an answer.

The answer was published.

For cruel insolence I never saw anything like it! He ought to be in prison for manslaughter--and he comes _here_! And people laugh and talk with him!" She stopped, almost choked by her own passion.

But the incident, after all, was only the spark to the mine.
Lady Winterbourne stared at her helplessly.
"Perhaps it isn't true," she suggested.