And now you expect me to take by the hand this young man who has almost been his murderer!" "No, mamma, it is not true.

You do not know the circumstances, and you assert things which are directly at variance with the truth." "From whom do you get your information?
From the young man himself.

Is that likely to be true?
What would Sir Magnus say as to that were I to tell him ?" "I do not know what he would say, but I do know what is the truth.

And can you think it possible that I should now be willing to accept this foolish young man in order thus to put an end to my embarrassments ?" Then she left her mother's room, and, retreating to her own, sat for a couple of hours thinking, partly in anger and partly in grief, of the troubles of her situation.

Her mother had now, in truth, frightened her as to Harry's position.