6/24 I shall not go out." "I will be here at eleven o'clock. Induce her if possible to leave the city--to go South, so that she may never come back." "The best I can shall be done," replied Mrs.Bray as she folded the bank-bills she had received from Mrs.Dinneford in a fond, tender sort of way and put them into her pocket. A veil seemed to fall away from it. All its virtuous sobriety was gone, and a smile of evil satisfaction curved about her lips and danced in her keen black eyes. She stood still, listening to the retiring steps of her visitor, until she heard the street door shut. |