17/56 And now I don't know; I wish, almost wish I hadn't." "What has changed your ideas ?" "I don't know. Howard is safer than Stephen Siward, already in the first clutches of his master-vice. Would you mate what she inherits from her mother and her mother's mother, with what is that poor boy's heritage from the Siwards ?" "After all," observed Ferrall dryly, "we're not in the angel-breeding business." "We ought to be. Every decent person ought to be. |