But then I am not yet quite convinced that silence ought to be kept." "You still feel, however, that _not_ to keep it is in some degree to sacrifice Lucia ?" "Yes.

But you know that we have long ago weighed that matter.

Heaven knows that my heart is in the same scale as my darling's happiness, and just for that very reason I am afraid to alter our decision." "You are right in saying '_we_.' I helped you to decide once, and I wish to change your decision now; for we yielded then to what we both believed to be the claim of duty, arising out of Christian's imprisonment and danger.

Now, however, that he is quite safe, and that his very imprisonment proves to be one of the very best things that could happen to him, the case is reversed; and he is no longer the first person to be thought of." "You do not wish to prevent me from nursing him ?" "Certainly not.

I only think that you can nurse him just as effectually and tenderly without all the world knowing the claim he has upon you." "You are quite certain that his memory and power of recognition will not return ?" Mr.Strafford repeated what Dr.Hardy had said.
"I must think," Mrs.Costello answered.