Indeed, I will tell the ruffian anything you like.

He has been sounding me a little; called to inquire after his poor cousin--the hypocrite!" "How good you are! Please tell him absolute repose is prescribed for a time, but there is no doubt of Sir Charles's ultimate recovery." Mr.Angelo promised heartily.
Mary Wells was not enough; a woman must have a man to lean on in trouble, and Lady Bassett leaned on Mr.Angelo.She even obeyed him.
One day he told her that her own health would fail if she sat always in the sick-room; she must walk an hour every day.
_"Must_ I ?" said she, sweetly.
"Yes, even if it is only in your own garden." From that time she used to walk with him nearly every day.
Richard Bassett saw this from his tower of observation; saw it, and chuckled.

"Aha!" said he.

"Husband sick in bed.

Wife walking in the garden with a young man--a parson, too.