They say she is going.

Then I am to be made an "honest woman of." Victor wants Nesta, now that she is away, to stay until...

You understand.

He feels she is safe from any possible kind of harm with those good ladies.

And I feel she is the safer for having you near.
Otherwise, how I should pray to have you with us! Daily I have to pass through, well, something like the ordeal of the red-hot ploughshares--and without the innocence, dear friend! But it's best that my girl should not have to be doing the same; though she would have the innocence.