Our sense of doom oppressed us.

"And yet," I said, turning to her, as we left the doorstep, "I don't doubt Mrs.Le Geyt really believes she IS a model stepmother!" "Of course she believes it," my witch answered.

"She has no more doubt about that than about anything else.

Doubts are not in her line.

She does everything exactly as it ought to be done--who should know, if not she ?--and therefore she is never afraid of criticism.