6/12 I was not there long; I was glad to escape. He...' she hesitated: for in truth it was difficult to shape the charge against him, and the effort to be reticent concerning Nevil, and communicative, now that he had been spoken of, as to the detested doctor, reduced her to some confusion. She was also fatally anxious to be in the extreme degree conscientious, and corrected and modified her remarks most suspiciously. He may be a good man in his way. He is one of those men who do not seem to think a woman may have opinions. |