Sinners do repent sometimes, Magdalen." There was a terrible silence, during which several fixtures in Magdalen's mind had to be painfully and swiftly moved, and carefully safeguarded into new positions.

Magdalen became very white in the process.
At last she said, "Did Andrea _know_ that Michael was innocent of the murder ?" "I never thought so at the time, but just before he died he said something cruel to me which shewed he knew Michael's innocence for certain, had known it from the first." "Then if he knew Michael had not murdered the Marchese, how do you suppose he accounted for his being hidden in your rooms at midnight, after he had ostensibly left the house ?" Fay stared at her sister aghast.
"I never thought of that," she said.
"What _can_ Andrea have thought of that ?" "Andrea was very secretive," faltered Fay.

"You never could tell what he was thinking.

And I was the last person he ever told things to.

Roman Catholics are like that.