Whatever can be done shall be done;' and, without further talk upon the subject, he took his hat and went his way.
'May God Almighty bless him!' said Mrs.Woodward.

'How infinitely greater are truth and honesty than any talent, however brilliant!' She spoke only to herself and no one even guessed what was the nature of the comparison which she thus made.
As soon as Norman was gone, Katie went to bed: and in the morning she was pronounced to be too unwell to get up.

And, indeed, she was far from well.

During the night she only slept by short starts, and in her sleep she was restless and uneasy; then, when she woke, she would burst out into fits of tears, and lie sobbing hysterically till she slept again.

In the morning, Mrs.Woodward said something about Charley's misconduct, and this threw her into a wretched state of misery, from which nothing would rouse her till her mother promised that the prodigal should not be thrown over and abandoned.
Poor Mrs.Woodward was in a dreadful state of doubt as to what it now behoved her to do.