Part II: Chapters XXXVI - XL Summary

Lady Seymour falls ill with a fever and needs to recuperate at the Lockton home. Isabel is put in charge of nursing the old woman back to health, and she is graced with long afternoons of reading the newspaper aloud, a luxury she never would have been afforded otherwise. Isabel still tries to steal away to the prison once a day with food, but she is terrified of being discovered. There is one kindly guard who always grants Isabel access to the prisoners in exchange for a handful of the food she brings. One afternoon, Lady Seymour hands over a biscuit and knowingly tells her to give it to the prisoner she feeds. Then she warns, "Take care how you go, Isabel. Many people think it is a fine and Christian thing to...