It makes me sick when I think how I was fooled and that you were such an ass as to let her slip." "Sir, I did my best and but for the spark who had the impudence to thrust his nose into what didn't concern him, I'd have had her safe.

But I've made amends.

I've run her to earth." "Satan's helped you then.

Where is she ?" "At her mother's house in the Old Bailey." "That's a lie." "Sir!" "I tell you it's a lie.

Her mother visited me at my chambers yesterday.
She'd got the story pat of Lavinia's running away with me from school and all the rest of it.