7/17 They will not let me be with him till they know if it is the small-pox. Isn't it enough to drive a woman mad ?" "Tell me, you poor soul," I said--"tell me everything. Afterwards it will be buried at the bottom of the sea." She turned to me with a sick look of gratitude. "I had a thought of going to Quinn by the light railway and going into the Catholic Chapel there and finding a priest who would listen to me and absolve me. But I was afraid I should be seen and recognized. |