The proper triumph of Protestant virtue required that they should fail in their adventures.

She had always known that there would be something disreputable heard of them sooner or later.
When the wretched Captain came into the neighbourhood,--and she soon heard of his coming,--she was gratified by feeling that her convictions had been correct.

When the sad tidings as to poor Kate reached her ears, she had "known that it would be so." That such a girl should be made Countess of Scroope in reward for her wickedness would be to her an event horrible, almost contrary to Divine Providence,--a testimony that the Evil One was being allowed peculiar power at the moment, and would no doubt have been used in her own circles to show the ruin that had been brought upon the country by Catholic emancipation.

She did not for a moment doubt that the present Earl should be encouraged to break any promises of marriage to the making of which he might have been allured.
But it was not so with Lady Scroope.

She, indeed, came to the same conclusion as her friend, but she did so with much difficulty and after many inward struggles.