Everyone knew Squire Ellison was a kind-hearted man, and as he acknowledged himself that he had obtained no evidence which would satisfy him that he had acted wrongly in the first case, it was clear that it was from mere kindness of heart that he had changed his mind on the subject.
At Tipping the subject was never mentioned.

The squire and Mrs.
Ellison had, on the drive home, had the most serious quarrel which had ever taken place during their wedded life; which had ended by the former saying: "If anyone had ever told me before, Mary, that you were a vindictive woman, I should have knocked him down.

I might do so now, but I should know in my heart that he had spoken truly.

For some reason or other you took a prejudice against that boy, and you never forgave his mother for standing up in his defence.

I was shocked, downright shocked, when you gave your evidence in court." Mrs.Ellison had been too much offended to reply, and the rest of the drive had been passed in silence.