human
Now listen to me. I am leaving this island in about three weeks time, and expect to be two years--perhaps three years--away. Mary O'Neill is going with me--as my wife. She intends to leave her child in the care of my mother, and I intend to promise her that she may set her mind at ease that it shall never under any circumstances be taken away. You seem to have made up your minds that she is going to die. Please God she may disappoint your expectations and come back strong and well. But if she does not, and I have to return alone, and if I find that her child has been removed from the protection in which she left it, do you know what I shall do?
gpt
Go to the courts, I presume,
human
Oh dear, no! I'll go to no courts, Mr. Curphy. I'll go to the people who have set the courts in motion--which means that I'll go to _you_ and _you_ and _you_ and _you_. Heaven knows how many of us may be living when that day comes; but as surely as I am, if I find that the promise I made to Mary O'Neill has been a vain one, and that her child is under this woman's control and the subject of a lawsuit about this man's money, and she in her grave, as surely as the Lord God is above us there isn't one soul of you here present who will be alive the following morning.