Excerpt from Guy Deverell, Vol. 2 of 2
"Well, he told you something, did not he?" persisted Lady Alice.
"In the sense of a distinct disclosure, nothing," said the Bishop, looking demurely over his horizontal leg on the neatly-shorn grass. "He did speak to me upon subjects - his wishes, and I have no doubt he intended to have been much more explicit. In fact, he intimated as much; but he was overtaken by death - unable to speak when I saw him next morning."
"He spoke to you, I know, about pulling down or blowing up that green chamber," said Lady Alice, whose recollections grew a little violent in proportion to the Bishop"s reserve and her own impatience.
"He did not suggest quite such strong measures, but he did regret that it had ever been built, and made me promise to urge upon his son, as you once before mentioned you were aware, so soon as he should come of age, to shut it up."
"And you did urge him?"
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