He is in town to-night." She looked so strange that Percy for an instant thought it was a seizure.

Her face seemed to fall away in a kind of emotion, half cunning, half fear.
"Well, my child ?" "Father, I am a little afraid when I think of that man.

He cannot harm me, can he?
I am safe now?
I am a Catholic-- ?" "My child, of course you are safe.

What is the matter?
How can this man injure you ?" But the look of terror was still there, and Percy came a step nearer.
"You must not give way to fancies," he said.

"Just commit yourself to our Blessed Lord.