If I'd been a Catholic, like Aileen and mother, I should have settled what the Virgin Mary was like when she was alive, and never said a prayer to her without thinking of Miss Falkland.
While I was dying one week and getting over it another, and going through all the misery every fellow has in his first year of gaol, Starlight was just his old self all the time.

He took it quite easy, never gave any one trouble, and there wasn't a soul in the place that wouldn't have done anything for him.

The visiting magistrate thought his a most interesting case, and believed in his heart that he had been the means of turning him from the error of his ways--he and the chaplain between them, anyhow.

He even helped him to be allowed to be kept a little separate from the other prisoners (lest they should contaminate him!), and in lots of ways made his life a bit easier to him.
It was reported about that it was not the first time that he had been in a gaol.

That he'd 'done time', as they call it, in another colony.
He might or he might not.