"You remember what he did to Fanny's--" began Caroline, and stopped abruptly short. "Sweetheart" was the word that ought to have followed, but she could not utter it. It seemed calculated to suggest ideas she had no intention to suggest--ideas delusive and disturbing. Moore was less scrupulous. "Fanny's sweetheart?" he said at once. "He gave him a shower-bath under the pump, did he not? He'd do as much for me, I dare say, with pleasure. I should like to provoke the old Turk--not, however, against you. But he would make a distinction between a cousin and a lover, would he not?"

"You remember what he did to Fanny's-" began Caroline, and stopped abruptly short of saying "sweetheart." She did not wish to suggest the idea.
Moore was less scrupulous. "Fanny's sweetheart?" he said. "He gave him a shower under the pump, did he not? He'd do as much for me, I dare say, with pleasure. But he would make a distinction between a cousin and a lover, would he not?"
