Experience had convinced her that (thanks to me) there was no fear of Kitty being discovered and taken from her.

She therefore begged me to write to my agent in Edinburgh, and tell him that her application to the court was withdrawn.' Ah, you understand my position at last.

The headstrong woman was running a risk which renewed all my anxieties.

By every day's post I expected to hear that she had paid the penalty of her folly, and that your brother had succeeded in getting possession of the child.

Wait a little before you laugh at me.