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You meant so well! you thought you were doing a wise thing in sending Landon away and at such a cost! but you did not know what he had left behind him Jenny of the Mill-Dykes, whose wicked tongue would blacken an angel's reputation!" A hand touched him lightly on the arm from behind.
He understood now old Jocelyn's talk of his "bargain" on the last night of his life,-and what a futile bargain it was, after all! for was not Jenny of the Mill-Dykes fully informed of the reason why the bargain was made? and she, the vilest-tongued woman in the whole neighbourhood, would take delight in spreading the story far and wide.
"I have somehow through no fault of my own lost my name! though I had no name to lose except Innocent! which, as the clergyman told me, is no name for a woman. Do you not see that if I married you, people would say it was because you were compelled to marry me? that you had gone too far to escape from me? that, in fact, we were a sort of copy of Ned Landon and Jenny of the Mill-Dykes?"
I'm only Jenny o' Mill-Dykes now just as I've always been the toss an' catch of every man! but I 'ad a grip on Ned with the kid, an' he'd a' done me right in the end if you an' your precious 'innocent' 'adn't been in the way " Robin made a quick stride towards her. "Go out of this place!" he said, fiercely "How dare you come here with such lies!" He stopped, half choked with rage.
It was Jenny of the Mill-Dykes I know her by sight, but not to speak to Priscilla told me something about her. She isn't a nice woman, is she?" "Nice?" Robin gasped "No, indeed! She is Well! I must not tell you what she is!" "No! you must not I don't want to hear. But she ought to be Ned Landon's wife I understood that! and she has a little child. I understood that too.
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