`` But , could you not have taken Kilmeny to a doctor unknown to her mother ? '' `` No , that was not possible . Margaret never let her out of her sight , not even when she was grown up . Besides , to tell you the whole truth , Master , we did n't think ourselves that it would be much use to try to cure Kilmeny . It WAS a sin that made her as she is . '' `` Aunt Janet , how can you talk such nonsense ? Where was there any sin ? Your sister thought herself a lawful wife . If Ronald Fraser thought otherwise -- and there is no proof that he did -- HE committed a sin , but you surely do not believe that it was visited in this fashion on his innocent child ! '' `` No , I am not meaning that , Master . That was n't where Margaret did wrong ; and though I never liked Ronald Fraser over much , I must say this in his defence -- I believe he thought himself a free man when he married Margaret . No , it 's something else -- something far worse . It gives me a shiver whenever I think of it . Oh , Master , the Good Book is right when it says the sins of the parents are visited on the children . There is n't a truer word in it than that from cover to cover . '' `` What , in heaven 's name , is the meaning of all this ? '' exclaimed Eric . `` Tell me what it is . I must know the whole truth about Kilmeny . Do not torment me . ''
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