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'I suppose they will begin with prayer, she said to Clara. Clara, who knew nothing of the manner in which things were done at such meetings, said that she supposed so. A town councillor's wife who sat on the other side of Mrs Winterfield here took the liberty of explaining that as the captain was going to talk politics there would be no prayers.
You know, I think, that my aunt Winterfield and I had some conversation about your neighbours, the Askertons; and you will remember that my aunt, whose ideas on such matters were always correct, was a little afraid that your father had not made sufficient inquiry respecting them before he allowed them to settle near him as tenants.
But such an occupation to Clara Amedroz assisted to make life serious. In person Mrs Winterfield was tall and thin, wearing on her brow thin braids of false hair.
You are, or will be, a rich man, and you have everything the world can give you. I am, or shall be, a very poor woman. 'Is that a reason why I should not be interested in your welfare? 'Yes the best reason in the world. We are not related to each other, though we have a common connexion in dear Mrs Winterfield.
'But he always writes when there is any business. He's a capital man of business. I wish I could say as much for his brother or for myself. 'Lady Aylmer seems to like work of that sort. 'So she does. She's fond of it I am not. I sometimes think that Fred takes after her. Where was it you first knew him? 'At Perivale. We used, both of us, to be staying with Mrs Winterfield.
To Mrs Winterfield, sitting up there and listening with all her ears, it seemed that he had hitherto omitted all allusion to any subject that was worthy of mention.
Winterfield another devoted friend of yours?" He walked to the door, as if he could hardly trust his temper if he answered her stopped and, thinking better of it, turned toward her again. "We won't quarrel, Stella," he rejoined; "I will only say I am sorry you don't appreciate my forbearance. Your reception of Mr.
Winterfield and Miss Eyrecourt are at last plainly revealed to me. Copies of the papers are in my possession, and the originals are sealed again, with the crest of the proprietor of the asylum, as if nothing had happened. I make no attempt to excuse myself. I don't propose to make any premature use of the information which I have obtained.
A man of headlong disposition, in my place, would have probably spoken of Miss Eyrecourt's marriage to Romayne at his first meeting with Winterfield, and would have excited their distrust, and put them respectively on their guard, without obtaining any useful result.
Winterfield rejoined, "I only distinguish between false remorse and true remorse. We will say no more of Alexander the Sixth, Father Benwell. If we want an illustration, I will supply it, and give no offense. True remorse depends, to my mind, on a man's accurate knowledge of his own motives far from a common knowledge, in my experience.
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