At Munich lived an admirable violinist, a friend of Herr Wilenski's, who would be of great use to her.

'In short, dear Mamma, doesn't it seem to you rather humiliating that at the age of four-and-twenty I should be begging for permission to go here and there, do this or that?
I know all your anxieties about me, and I am very grateful, and I feel ashamed to be living at your expense, but really I must go about making a career for myself in my own way.' Mrs.Frothingham yielded, and Alma took lodgings in Munich together with her German friend.
English newspapers were now reporting the trial of the directors of the Britannia Company, for to this pass had things come.

The revelations of the law-court satisfied public curiosity, and excited indignant clamour.

Alma read, and tried to view the proceedings as one for whom they had no personal concern; but her sky darkened, her heart grew heavy.

The name of Bennet Frothingham stood for criminal recklessness, for huge rascality; it would be so for years to come.