The Heart of Mid-Lothian Volume 2 Chapter 11

In which the steadfast Jeanie Deans encounters the troubled young George Staunton and his stern father, navigating a scene fraught with reproach and tender entreaties, before embarking on her perilous journey to London under the cautious protection of strangers. Her thoughts are burdened with the heavy question of duty and justice, even as she contemplates the tangled fortunes and follies of the Staunton family, and the uncertain path that lies before her.