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Updated: June 5, 2025
Do you not understand that it was all a wicked horrible plot to get you away and destroy you, that the telegram was a forgery, that the jewels were taken to make it appear that you had stolen them and run away during my absence from the house?" Fan rose and followed her, and when they got to the Bayswater Road Miss Starbrow called a cab.
The tuition would be undertaken by the daughter, who was well qualified for such a task, and could teach languages Latin, German, and French were mentioned; also mathematics, geology, history, music, drawing, and a great many other branches of knowledge, both useful and ornamental. Fan listened to this part of the letter with a look of dismay on her face, which made Miss Starbrow laugh.
"I cannot tell you, my poor child, how much I feel this trouble that has come on you so early in life. But before I can speak fully about it I must know something more. I am in the dark yet Constance has not told me why Miss Starbrow has seen fit to act in such a way. Will you let me see her letter?" and with trembling fingers she began to wipe her glasses, which had grown dim.
Miss Starbrow clenched her hands and uttered a little cry. Her face had become white, and she turned away from the girl. Presently she sat down, and said in a strangely altered voice, "Tell me, Fan, did you take some jewels from my dressing-table a brooch and three rings, and some other things?"
The others at once withdrew, going back to the house, while Miss Starbrow sat down on a garden bench and drew the girl to her side. "Well, my child, what do you think of your new teacher?" she began. "I like her so much, Mary, I'm sure I know she will be very kind to me; and is she not beautiful?" "I am not going to talk about that, Fan. I haven't time.
"Oh yes, it was thoughtless of me to keep her here thanks for reminding me," said Miss Starbrow, with a strange softening of her voice her friends were not accustomed to hear. "Run up to your room, Fan, and go to bed. I'm sorry I've kept you up so late, poor child." And Fan, with a grateful look towards Mr. Chance, left the room gladly enough.
But it was only the old implacable anger flashing out again. Fan, after reading the letter for herself, and dropping it with trembling fingers on to the fire, turned to her mistress. Her face had also grown very pale, and her eyes expressed a new and great trouble. "Why do you look at me like that?" exclaimed Miss Starbrow, seizing her by the arm. "Speak!"
He hesitated, glancing at her with troubled eyes, and then replied "I thought, Miss Starbrow, that when you heard that I was trying to live down the past trying very hard and not unsuccessfully as I imagined it would have made some difference in your feelings towards me. To win your forgiveness for the wrong I did you has been the one motive I have had for all my strivings since I last saw you.
She was curious to hear about the "selfish motive," but remembered the family failing, and forbore to press him. According to his own accounts, Mr. Tom Starbrow was up in town on business; apparently the business was not of a very pressing nature, as most of his time during the next few days was spent at Dawson Place, where he and his sister had endless conversations about old times.
Miss Starbrow, regarding her with a curious and not untroubled smile, remarked: "You are improving in your looks every day, Fan; by-and-by you will be a beautiful girl and then!"
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