Churchill told me flatly that I should be alone if I tried the latter, and said that he was not so great a fool as to win the enmity of the king by attempting to bring the law upon Crofts.
You know Churchill's maxim, 'A fool conscience and a fool damned.'" "There is wisdom in it," I answered.
"I suppose there is," returned Hamilton.

"I wanted the thousand pounds to pay Roger Wentworth's widow, so I won it in France, brought it to England, and yesterday sent it by a trusted messenger to Sundridge.

Of course the widow does not know where it came from." "It was like you, George," said I."One does not do a thing of that sort for sake of a reward, but, believe me, the reward always comes." "It was the right thing to do," he answered.

"But instead of the reward comes now the keenest grief I have ever known, the loss of the small regard in which I was one time held by the only woman I ever loved or ever shall love." He stopped speaking, but I fancied he had not finished, so I did not interrupt him.

I had so much to say in return that I did not care to begin until I had a clear field.