The consul assures us, on the authority of the doctor, that she is perfectly gentle and harmless.

If she is really the victim of a mental delusion, the poor creature is surely an object of compassion, and she ought to be placed under proper care.

Ask your own kind heart, my dear aunt, if it would not be downright cruelty to turn this forlorn woman adrift in the world without making some inquiry first." Lady Janet's inbred sense of justice admitted not over willingly--the reasonableness as well as the humanity of the view expressed in those words.

"There is some truth in that, Julian," she said, shifting her position uneasily in her chair, and looking at Horace.

"Don't you think so, too ?" she added.
"I can't say I do," answered Horace, in the positive tone of a man whose obstinacy is proof against every form of appeal that can be addressed to him.
The patience of Julian was firm enough to be a match for the obstinacy of Horace.