I expect I had better have left things alone, but now I have interfered I shall go on with it." Mrs.Wingfield was much displeased when Vincent told her at dinner of his incident at Jackson's plantation, and even his sisters were shocked at the interference between a master and his slave.
"You will get yourself into serious trouble with these fanciful notions of yours," Mrs.Wingfield said angrily.

"You know as well as I do how easy it is to get up a cry against anyone as an Abolitionist, and how difficult to disprove the accusation; and just at present, when the passions of every man in the South are inflamed to the utmost, such an accusation will be most serious.

In the present instance there does not seem that there is a shadow of excuse for your conduct.

You simply heard cries of a slave being flogged.

You deliberately leave the road and enter these people's plantation, and interfere without, so far as I can see, the least reason for doing so.