I hear the ladies' voices in the next room.

It were best that we got this painful business over, at once." Madame Flambard was greatly distressed, when Leigh gave his sister an account of the conversation they had had, and the resolution at which they had arrived; but Patsey at once saw that it was most desirable that the change should be made, and assured her hostess that she fully recognized that their safety would be imperilled by staying at their house.
"It would be a cruel kindness, on your part, to insist upon our stopping here, Madame Flambard.

We know that it is from no lack of hospitality that we are leaving, but that you are making a real sacrifice, in order to procure our safety.
"Shall I put on my things at once, monsieur ?" "By no means.

I will go with your brother, first, to see if Madame Chopin has other lodgers.

If so, I will go to the wife of one of my clerks, who also lets a portion of a house; or, if you would not mind poor accommodation, to another of the captains' wives as, in your brother's character of a sailor, it would be more natural for you to go to such a lodging, which may very well have been recommended to you by the skipper of the lugger in which you came here.