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She could not trust herself to refer to him directly; she went on to the next sentence. "And there might be some other reason," she resumed. "Do you know what that is?" Carmina asked. "No more than you do thus far." She spoke the plain truth. Thanks to the dog's interruption, and to the necessity of saving herself from discovery, the last clauses of the Will had been read in her absence.
After opening it, she paused and looked back into the room. "Have you thought of what I told you, last night?" she asked. Sorely as they had been tried, Carmina's energies rallied at this. "I have done my best to forget it!" she answered. "At Miss Minerva's request?" Carmina took no notice of the question. Mrs. Gallilee persisted. "Have you had any communication with that person?"
If he had placed himself nearer to the desk, he might have seen that Zo had been thinking of Carmina to some purpose. What could she do to make her friend and playfellow well and happy again? There was the question which Zo asked herself, after having seen Carmina carried insensible out of the room.
That slight movement over, she stirred no more. After waiting a little, Carmina ventured to speak. "Frances," she said, "you have not shaken hands with me yet." Miss Minerva slowly looked up, keeping her hands still clasped on her lap. "When is he coming back?" she asked. It was said quietly. Carmina quietly replied, "Not yet I am sorry to say." "I am sorry too."
After walking in the Park until he was weary, he sat down by the ornamental lake, and watched the waterfowl enjoying their happy lives. Wherever he went, whatever he did, Carmina was always with him. He had seen thousands of girls, whose personal attractions were far more remarkable and some few among them whose manner was perhaps equally winning.
The dictating voice pronounced these words: "I forbid the woman Teresa to act in the capacity of nurse to Miss Carmina, and even to enter the room in which that young lady is now lying ill. I further warn this person, that my niece will be restored to my care, the moment her medical attendants allow her to be removed.
That evening, Carmina sent a telegram to Rome, on the chance that the nurse might not yet have begun her journey. Guessing in the dark, Carmina and the governess had ignorantly attributed the sinister alteration in Mrs. Gallilee's manner to the prospect of Teresa's unwelcome return.
Gallilee and Miss Minerva had once quarrelled fiercely and Mrs. Gallilee had got the worst of it. She learnt her lesson. For the future she knew how to deal with her governess. When one said, "I know why," the other only answered, "Do you?" "Let's have it out plainly, ma'am," Miss Minerva proceeded. "I am not to let Mr. Ovid and Miss Carmina be alone together." "You are a good guesser," Mrs.
The letters waiting for her were addressed only to herself. She rang for the maid. "Any other letters this morning?" she asked. "Two, for my master." "No more than that!" "Nothing more, ma'am except a telegram for Miss Carmina." "When did it come?" "Soon after the letters." "Have you given it to her?" "Being a telegram, ma'am, I thought I ought to take it to Miss Carmina at once." "Quite right.
Well, what was it you didn't like to say of yourself?" Carmina dropped her voice to a whisper. "It's no use asking me what I do see, or don't see, in my aunt," she answered. "I am afraid we shall never be what we ought to be to each other. When she came to that concert, and sat by me and looked at me " She stopped, and shuddered over the recollection of it.
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