And believe me to be, Yours most sincerely, MARY QUIN.
A Roman Catholic;--one whom no one knew but the priest;--a girl who perhaps never had a father! All this was terrible to Lady Scroope.

Roman Catholics,--and especially Irish Roman Catholics,--were people whom, as she thought, every one should fear in this world, and for whom everything was to be feared in the next.

How would it be with the Earl if this heir also were to tell him some day that he was married?
Would not his grey hairs be brought to the grave with a double load of sorrow?
However, for the present she thought it better to say not a word to the Earl..