He said that Jasper Tuite came between you, tried to save the girl from you.

He said it would be a pretty case to go before a jury, that you had cause, even more than the money, to hate Jasper Tuite and wish him out of the way." "And you believed it ?" I saw Lord St.Leger cower, and I said out of my pity and love for him-- "Uncle Luke, he is old, and you had left him He could not disprove the things even if he did not believe them." Uncle Luke's face changed.

He looked down at his father.
"We will give him the lie together," he said; and then he noticed the blood on the white hair and was terrified, till we assured him it was nothing.

"So little Bawn was the price of Garret Dawson's silence," he said; and then added solemnly that he could never have forgiven himself if the price had been paid.
At this point the door of the room was opened, and Neil Doherty, bowing on the threshold, announced that supper was served.

And we remembered that Uncle Luke must be hungry, and his mother reproached herself, while he remembered for the first time that he had not eaten for many hours.
I don't know how Neil had managed it in the time, but the house was lit from top to bottom and the servants were standing in a line for us to pass through, all with happy faces.