If by any accident he met you and me together, I am certain he would." "Ah! I am so like my father." "Lucia, I _dare_ not meet him.

I believe the very sight of him would kill me." "Let us go away, mamma.

He knows nothing about us yet.

We might start to-morrow." "Where should we go?
Even at our own door we might meet him, at the railway station--anywhere.

No, it is only inside these walls we are safe, and scarcely here." Mrs.Costello was literally trembling, the panic which had seized her was so great; Lucia, not fully understanding yet, could not help being infected by her terror.
"But, mamma, we cannot shut ourselves up in these rooms.