Poor Giacosa!" "He has had his compensation," Rowland said.

"He has been passionately fond of Christina." "Naturally.

But has Christina never wondered why ?" "If she had been near guessing, her mother's shabby treatment of him would have put her off the scent.

Mrs.Light's conscience has apparently told her that she could expiate an hour's too great kindness by twenty years' contempt.

So she kept her secret.