When we first began to fear that she was never going to talk Thomas wanted to take her to Charlottetown and have her looked to . He thought so much of the child and he felt terrible about it . But her mother would n't hear of it being done . There was no use trying to argue with her . She said that it would be no use -- that it was her sin that was visited on her child and it could never be taken away . '' `` And did you give in meekly to a morbid whim like that ? '' asked Eric impatiently . `` Master , you did n't know my sister . We HAD to give in -- nobody could hold out against her . She was a strange woman -- and a terrible woman in many ways -- after her trouble . We were afraid to cross her for fear she would go out of her mind . '' `` 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 XXXXX , Master .
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