To lessen the weight of the memorial, or to have a readier answer at his hand, he desired I should appear publicly in the character of his intimate.

But if I were to appear with the same publicity as a visitor to Catriona in her prison the world would scarce stint to draw conclusions, and the true nature of James More's escape must become evident to all.

This was the little problem I had set him of a sudden, and to which he had so briskly found an answer.

I was to be tethered in Glasgow by that job of copying, which in mere outward decency I could not well refuse; and during these hours of my employment Catriona was privately got rid of.

I think shame to write of this man that loaded me with so many goodnesses.