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The female servants were examined again. Each one of them positively asserted her innocence. Mrs. Gallilee threatened to send for the police. The indignant women all cried in chorus, "Search our boxes!" Mrs. Gallilee took a wiser course. She sent to the lawyers who had been recommended to her by Mr. Null. The messenger had just been despatched, when Mr.
N.B. The mutilated musician leaves the question of terms in the hands of the art-loving public, and will do himself the honour of calling to-morrow." Good-natured Mr. Gallilee left a sovereign to be given to the victim of circumstances and then set forth for Lord Northlake's house. He and Ovid had arranged that Zo was to be taken to see Carmina that day.
Other women might have been alarmed by the atrocious wickedness of the conspiracy which the music-master had planned. Mrs. Gallilee was only offended. That he should think her capable in her social position of favouring such a plot as he had suggested, was an insult which she was determined neither to forgive nor forget.
And Ovid completes the round of ingratitude by marrying the girl who has behaved in this way. I declare to you, Gallilee, that was how she put it! 'Am I to blame, she said, 'for believing that story about my brother's wife? It's acknowledged that she gave the man money the rest is a matter of opinion. Was I wrong to lose my temper, and say what I did say to this so-called niece of mine?
Even Carmina may have enemies!" What could she be thinking of? "Enemies in my mother's house!" Ovid exclaimed. "What can you possibly mean?" Teresa returned to the door, and only answered him when she had opened it to go. "The Evil Eye never lies," she said. "Wait and you will see." Mrs. Gallilee was on her way to the breakfast-room, when her son entered the house. They met in the hall.
He fell sadly below his mother's level in replying to this. "Do everything you can to make her life happy while I am away." Those were his only instructions. But Mrs. Gallilee had not done with him yet. "With regard to visitors," she went on, "I presume you wish me to be careful, if I find young men calling here oftener than usual?" Ovid actually laughed at this.
Joseph brought the luncheon up to Carmina's room. The mistress was still at her studies; the master had gone to his club. As for the girls, their only teacher for the present was the teacher of music. When the ordeal of the lecture and the discussion had been passed, Mrs. Gallilee threatened to take Miss Minerva's place herself, until a new governess could be found.
Gallilee now occupied, Carmina was hidden, for the moment, from Benjulia's view. Biding his time at the window, he looked out. A cab, with luggage on it, had just drawn up at the house. Was this the old nurse who had been expected to arrive at six o'clock? The footman came out to open the cab-door. He was followed by Mr. Gallilee, eager to help the person inside to alight.
Gallilee took if for granted that his favourite daughter was employed on a writing lesson following Maria's industrious example for once. "Good children!" he said, looking affectionately from one to the other. "I won't disturb you; go on." He took a chair, satisfied comforted, even to be in the same room with the girls.
At any other time, he would have flatly refused to lower himself to the level of a scandal-mongering woman, by entering on the subject. In his present mood, if pacifying Mrs. Galilee, and ridding himself of Mrs. Gallilee, meant one and the same thing, he was ready, recklessly ready, to let her have her own way.
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