She was so innocent that she could not understand the fury of the German woman.

For, as you may imagine, the wifely penetration was not to be deceived for any great length of time--the more so that the wife was older than the husband.

The man with the peculiar cowardice of respectability never said a word in Flora's defence.

He stood by and heard her reviled in the most abusive terms, only nodding and frowning vaguely from time to time.

It will give you the idea of the girl's innocence when I say that at first she actually thought this storm of indignant reproaches was caused by the discovery of her real name and her relation to a convict.