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"Now, Anthony," continued the priest, "I have something very important
to spake to you about; something that will be for your own benefit,
not only in this world, but in that awful one which is to come, and for
which we ought to prepare ourselves sincerely and earnestly. Have you
any objection that your wife should be present, or shall we go upstairs
and talk it over there?"
"I have every objection," replied Corbet; "something she does know,
but--"
"O thank goodness," replied the old woman, very naturally offended at
being kept out of the secret, "I'm not in all your saicrets, nor I don't
wish to know them, I'm sure. I believe you find some of them a heavy
burden; at any rate."
"Come, then," said the priest, "put on your hat and take a walk with me
as far as the Brazen Head inn, where I'm stopping. We can have a private
room there, where there will be no one to interrupt us."
"Would it be the same thing to you, sir, if I'd call on you there about
this time to-morrow?"
"What objection have you to come now?" asked the priest.


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