When silence had become more loud than speech, she turned in her seat and addressed herself to him.
"I have known you do many good deeds," she said slowly.

"That gentleman that was here is your servant, is he not, and an exile, and unhappy?
And you sent him away comforted.

It was a generous thing." Haward moved restlessly.

"A generous thing," he answered.

"Ay, it was generous.