But you will not be angry with me for saying that after what has occurred here, your presence has been most anxiously expected.

However here you are, and all may yet be well.

As God's minister I ought perhaps to upbraid.

But I am not given to much upbraiding, and I love that dear and innocent young face too well to desire anything now but that the owner of it should receive at your hands that which is due to her before God and man." He perceived that the priest knew it all.

But how could he wonder at this when that which ought to have been her secret and his had become known even to Lady Mary Quin?
And he understood well what the priest meant when he spoke of that which was due to Kate O'Hara before God and man; and he could perceive, or thought that he perceived, that the priest did not doubt of the coming marriage, now that he, the victim, was again back in the west of Ireland.