"Indeed, Mr. Gibson, if it was false I would never have named it, but
let it die away."
"It's not true, though!" said he, doggedly, letting drop the hand he
had taken in his effusion of gratitude.
She shook her head. "I shall always love Molly for her mother's
sake," she said. And it was a great concession from the correct Miss
Browning. But her father did not understand it as such.
"You ought to love her for her own. She has done nothing to disgrace
herself. I shall go straight home, and probe into the truth."
"As if the poor girl who has been led away into deceit already would
scruple much at going on in falsehood," was Miss Browning's remark on
this last speech of Mr. Gibson's; but she had discretion enough not
to make it until he was well out of hearing.