'Kindness! Have I not done ten times for these Jocelyns what they have done for us?
O mio Deus! why, I have bestowed on them the membership for Fallow field: I have saved her from being a convicted liar this very day.

Worse! for what would have been talked of the morals of the house, supposing the scandal.

Oh! indeed I was tempted to bring that horrid mad Captain into the house face to face with his flighty doll of a wife, as I, perhaps, should have done, acting by the dictates of my conscience.

I lied for Lady Jocelyn, and handed the man to a lawyer, who withdrew him.

And this they owe to me! Kindness?
They have given us bed and board, as the people say.