Try and keep up your spirits, and believe me, dear Isabel, with sincere sympathy and regret, faithfully yours, "EMMA MOUNT SEVERN." The color came into Isabel's pale cheek when she read the signature.
She thought, had she been the writer, she should, in that first, early letter, have still signed herself Emma Vane.

Isabel handed the note to Mr.Carlyle.

"It is very unfortunate," she sighed.
Mr.Carlyle glanced over it as quickly as Mrs.Vane's illegible writing allowed him, and drew in his lips in a peculiar manner when he came to the signature.

Perhaps at the same thought which had struck Isabel.
"Had Mrs.Vane been worth a rush, she would have come herself, knowing your lonely situation," he uttered, impulsively.
Isabel leaned her head upon her hand.

All the difficulties and embarrassments of her position came crowding on her mind.