26/43 My conscience is a tender one. I dread to do any one an injury. That has always been true of me, in spite of your sceptical look; and the tendency increases as I grow older. Let us have done with so unimportant a matter. Isn't Miss Nunn able to rejoin us ?' 'She will come presently, I think.' 'How did you make this lady's acquaintance ?' Miss Barfoot explained the circumstances. |