[The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of Bawn CHAPTER XX 5/9
"And I shall not rest till I have found out. Garret Dawson will find it a very different thing to frighten me.
Your grandfather is very old, Bawn, or this would not have happened." She went after them, and I saw her take an arm of each and go down the garden with them, they leaning on her. When they were out of sight I went into the library to write my letter to Theobald, taking the blotting-pad and pen and ink and paper to my favourite seat in the oriel.
There presently my godmother found me.
I was getting on but slowly with the letter, for my unhappy thoughts were grinding upon each other like the stones of a quern, trying to find a solution of something that could not be solved. "Lord St.Leger would do everything but tell me the whole truth," she said.
"Poor souls! They think I ought not to be told evil of Luke, as though I were not the one to say that I did not believe it.
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