Courthope urged motives of humanity.

He described the man and his condition.
At length he prevailed.

Madge insisted that if Morin did not go she would.

In a few moments both she and Morin were preparing to set out.
It seemed useless for Courthope to precede them; he went into the dining-room, demanding food of Madam Morin.
He found that Eliz had been carried down and placed in her chair in the midst of domestic activities.
As soon as she spied him, being in a nervous, hysterical state, she opened her mouth and shrieked sharply; the shriek at this time had more the tone of a child's anger than of a woman's fear.

With a strong sense of humour he sat down at the table, and she, realising that he was not immediately dangerous, railed upon him.
'Viper in the bosom!' said Eliz.
Courthope, almost famished, ate fast.
'Daughter of the horse-leech crying "give," and sucking blood from the hand it gives!' she continued.
'Sir Charles Grandison would never have kicked a man when he was down,' he said.