Come home alone. ” Lady Ferringhall sat with half closed eyes and clenched teeth. \"Why weren't you there?\" She asked Mike. I am determined to fight my own little battle with the world —there must be a place for me somewhere, and I mean to find it. But she did not talk readily, and in order to say something she plunged a little, and felt she plunged. "I strangled him—ha! ha! ha!—strangled him while he was at my breast—ha! ha!"—And then with a sudden and fearful change of look, she added, "That's what has driven me mad, I killed my child to save him from the gallows—oh! oh! One man hanged in a family is enough.