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My narrative brightens again but let us not forget Sir Gervase Damian. I ask permission to introduce some persons of distinction: Mrs. Fosdyke, of Carsham Hall, widow of General Fosdyke; also Master Frederick, Miss Ellen, and Miss Eva, the pupils of the new governess; also two ladies and three gentlemen, guests staying in the house.
I immediately handed it to Miss Melbury. Really a most enjoyable evening! THE next morning we were startled by an extraordinary proceeding on the part of one of the guests. Mr. Sax had left Carsham Hall by the first train nobody knew why. Nature has laid so, at least, philosophers say some heavy burdens upon women. Do those learned persons include in their list the burden of hysterics?
Did these two ladies presume to think ? No; I abstained from completing that inquiry at the time, and I abstain from completing it here. The end of the week came, and I and the children were left alone at Carsham Hall.
His reply, dated from a country house some twenty miles distant, announced that he would be at Carsham Hall in three days' time. On that third day the legal paper that I was to sign arrived by post. It was Sunday morning; I was alone in the schoolroom. In writing to me, the lawyer had only alluded to "a surviving relative of Sir Gervase, nearly akin to him by blood."
They were fairly intelligent children; the boy, as usual, being slower than the girls. I did my best with many a sad remembrance of the far dearer pupils whom I had left to make them like me and trust me; and I succeeded in winning their confidence. In a week from the time of my arrival at Carsham Hall, we began to understand each other.
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