You are so flurried by all this, that you are not fit
to go anywhere else."
"I am flurried."
"Of course you are. Never mind about dressing. Do you go up and tell
Georgiana all about it;--and have dinner put off half an hour. I must
hunt Pickering up, if I don't find him at home." Then Phineas did go
upstairs and tell Georgiana--otherwise Mrs. Low--the whole story.
Mrs. Low was deeply affected, declaring her opinion very strongly as
to the horrible condition of things, when madmen could go about with
pistols, and without anybody to take care against them. But as to
Lady Laura Kennedy, she seemed to think that the poor husband had
great cause of complaint, and that Lady Laura ought to be punished.
Wives, she thought, should never leave their husbands on any pretext;
and, as far as she had heard the story, there had been no pretext at
all in the case. Her sympathies were clearly with the madman, though
she was quite ready to acknowledge that any and every step should be
taken which might be adverse to Mr. Quintus Slide.
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