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Her training in the matter of subtlety had not been such as Ameerah's, and it may not be regarded as altogether improbable that her observation of the Ayah was at times not too adroitly concealed, but if the native woman knew that she was being remarked, she gave no sign of her knowledge.
But Ameerah was so frightened that she had forgotten the name, and when Jane knocked at the door of Mrs. Osborn's boudoir, it was empty, both the ladies having gone into the garden. But Ameerah's story was quite true, Lady Walderhurst said in the evening when Jane spoke of the matter as she dressed her for dinner.
She thought of nothing whatever but the look in Ameerah's downcast eyes when the servants had talked of the bottomless water, the eerie, satisfied, sly look. Of that, and of the rising of the white figure from the ground last night she thought, and she clutched her neat side as she ran.
In her lady's maid's way she'd fight for your life." "I think she is as faithful to me as Ameerah is to you," Emily answered. "I feel sure Ameerah would fight for you." Ameerah's devotion in these days took the form of a deep-seated hatred of the woman whom she regarded as her mistress's enemy. "It is an evil thing that she should take this place," she said. "She is an old woman.
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