'My husband will send his testimonials, Miss, to Lord Montbarry in Scotland.

I only wanted you to let him say in his letter that his wife has been known to you since she was a child, and that you feel some little interest in his welfare on that account.

I don't ask it now, Miss.

You have made me understand that I was wrong.' Had she really been wrong?
Past remembrances, as well as present troubles, pleaded powerfully with Agnes for the courier's wife.

'It seems only a small favour to ask,' she said, speaking under the impulse of kindness which was the strongest impulse in her nature.