human
What does Florian do with himself?
gpt
I am afraid he is frightened,
human
Of course he is frightened, said her sister.
gpt
How should he not be frightened? These men have been telling him for the last six months that they would surely murder him if he turned round and gave evidence against them. Oh, Frank, I fear that I have been wrong in persuading him to tell the truth.
human
Not though his life were sacrificed to-morrow. To have kept the counsels of such a ruffian as that against his own father would have been a disgrace to him for ever. Does not my father think of sending him to England?
gpt
He says that he has not the money,
human
Is it so bad as that with him?
gpt
I am afraid it is very bad,--bad at any rate, for the time coming. He has not had a shilling of rent for this spring, and he has to pay the money to Mrs. Pulteney and the others. Poor papa is sorely vexed, and we do not like to press him. He suggested himself that he would send Florian over to Mr. Blake's; but we think that Carnlough is not far enough, and that it would be unfair to impose such a trouble on another man.
human
Could he not send him to Mrs. Pulteney?
gpt
He does not like to ask her, said Edith.
human
He thinks that Mrs. Pulteney has not shown herself very kind of late. We are waiting till you speak to him about it.
gpt
But what does Florian do with himself?
human
You will see. He does little or nothing, but roams about the house and talks to Peter. He did not even go to mass last Sunday. He says that the whole congregation would accuse him of being a liar.
gpt
Does he not know that he has done his duty by the lie he has told?
human
But to go alone among these people!
gpt
And to hear their damnable taunts! said Edith.
human
It is very hard upon him. I think it is papa's idea to keep him here till after the trial in August, and then, if possible, to send him to England. There would be the double journey else, and papa thinks that there would be no real danger till his evidence had been given.