Had O'Shea a good conscience now?
Would he continue to be in all respects the man he had been, and the staunch friend of Josephine?
In his heart Caius believed that Le Maitre was murdered; but he had no evidence to prove it--nothing whatever but what O'Shea's wife had said to him that day she was hanging out her linen, and such talk occurs in many a household, and nothing comes of it.
Now Josephine was free.

"What a blessing!" He used the common idiom to himself, and then wondered at it.

Could one man's crime be another man's blessing?
He found himself, out of love for Josephine, wondering concerning the matter from the point of view of the religious theory of life.

Perhaps this was Heaven's way of answering Josephine's appeal, and saving her; or perhaps human souls are so knit together that O'Shea, by the sin, had not blessed, but hindered her from blessing.

It was a weary round of questions, which Caius was not wise enough to answer.