That is shame enough." "And is that all ye came to tell me ?" She was going to the bottom of it now.

This man was gripped in the tortures of the damned and could only be helped when he had emptied out his heart--all of it, down to the very dregs.
"No, there is something else.

I wanted to speak to you about Masie.

I may go back to England in a few days and I am not satisfied to leave her unprotected.

She has no mother and you have no daughter--would you look after her for me?
I have learned to love her very dearly--and I am greatly disturbed over her future and who is to look after her.