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Helped by her steadier flow of spirits, Carmina could now see all that was worthiest of sympathy and admiration, all that claimed loving submission and allowance from herself, in the sacrifice to which Miss Minerva had submitted. How bravely the poor governess had controlled the jealous misery that tortured her! How nobly she had pronounced Carmina's friendship for Carmina's sake!
"While husbands and wives live together," he continued, "the Law holds that all children, born in wedlock, are the husband's children. Even if Miss Carmina's mother had not been as good and innocent a woman as ever drew the breath of life " "That will do, Mr. Mool. You really mean to say that this girl's interest in my brother's Will "
The first quarterly payment of Carmina's allowance of five hundred a year had been already made, by Mool's advice. Enough was left even without the assistance which the nurse's resources would render to purchase the necessary outfit, and to take the two women to Quebec. Meanwhile, Fortune befriended Mrs. Gallilee's maid. No questions were put to her; no notice even was taken of the late return.
Admitted to a private interview with Ovid, she had failed to control her agitation; and, worse still, in her ungovernable eagerness to produce a favourable impression on him at parting, she had promised honestly promised, in that moment of impulse to make Carmina's happiness her own peculiar care! Carmina, who had destroyed in a day the hope of years!
In speechless astonishment, he confronted Carmina's faithful companion Teresa. "If you please, I want to speak to you," she said, in her best English. Ovid took her into his consulting-room. She wasted no time in apologies or explanations. "Don't speak!" she broke out. "Carmina has had a bad night." "I shall be at the house in half an hour!" Ovid eagerly assured her.
Arrived in sight of the hall, she discovered a man walking slowly to and fro. He turned towards her as she advanced, and disclosed the detestable face of Mr. Le Frank. The music-master's last reserves of patience had come to an end. Watch for them as he might, no opportunities had presented themselves of renewing his investigation in Carmina's room.
Carmina's enjoyment of Zo was becoming too keen for her strength; her bursts of laughter grew louder and louder the wholesome limit of excitement was being rapidly passed. "Tell us about your cousins," he said, by way of effecting a diversion. "The big ones?" Zo asked. "No; the little ones, like you." "Nice girls they play at everything I tell 'em.
But his conduct, since the catastrophe in Carmina's room, had produced a complete estrangement between the married pair. All his inquiries after his wife's health had been made by deputy. When he was not in the schoolroom with the children, he was at his club. Until he came to his senses, and made humble apology, no earthly consideration would induce Mrs.
In the earlier time of Carmina's sojourn in the house, Mrs. Gallilee had accused her of deliberate deceit. She had instantly resented the insult by leaving the room. The same spirit in her the finely-strung spirit that vibrates unfelt in gentle natures, while they live in peace steadied those quivering nerves, roused that failing courage.
Carmina's worn face, telling its tale of a wakeful night, brightened again, as it had brightened at the bedroom window, when she saw Ovid. She took his hand frankly, and made light of her weary looks. "No, my cousin," she said, playfully; "I mean to be worthier of my pretty bed to-night; I am not going to be your patient yet." Mr.
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