"I felt it coming on me last night," she said, "when I was talking to you; and I felt it still more strongly when I left you after tea.

I have lived long enough.

God's will be done." At that moment, when she said she had lived long enough, she forgot her intention with reference to her will.

But she remembered it before Clara had left the room.

"Tell Frederic," she said, "to send at once for Mr.Palmer." Now Clara knew that Mr.Palmer was the attorney, and resolved that she would give no such message to Captain Aylmer.