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Updated: May 2, 2025
I was so humiliated about it, and after all that passed between father and Tom and me I could not stay in Berlin and never be sure whose money was paying for my bread, and when I heard that Madame Lafarcade, a French lady, who had spent the winter in Berlin, was wanting an English governess for her children, I went to her, and, as the result, am here at this beautiful country-seat, just out of the city, earning my own living and feeling so proud to do it; only, Guy, there is an ache in my heart, a heavy, throbbing pain which will not leave me day or night, and this is how it came there.
Through the summer a malarial fever had prevailed to some extent in and about Rouen, and the physician whom Madame Lafarcade summoned to the sick girl expressed a fear that she was coming down with it, and ordered her kept as quiet as possible. "She seems to have something weighing on her mind.
"I thought so," he rejoined, "and it aggravates all the symptoms of her fever. I shall call again to-night." He did call and found his patient worse, and the next day he asked Madame Lafarcade: "Has she friends in this country? If so, they ought to know." A few hours later, and in his lodgings at Berlin, Tom read the following dispatch: "Mrs. Thornton is dangerously ill. Come at once."
Tom had heard from Madame Lafarcade of Guy's marriage, and, like her, understood why Daisy's fever ran so high and her mind was in such a turmoil.
Guy would write to her, "Come!" and she would go, and more than once she counted the contents of her purse and added to it the sum due her from Madame Lafarcade, and wondered if she would dare venture on the journey with so small a sum.
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