There, there, don't cry! Just one thing more.

What did your brother mean when he said there were others who would lift me out of my misery ?" Again the old servant, brushing away her tears, hesitated to reply.

She had sent for Stephen to answer this very question, and her mistress had practically driven him from the room.

How, then, was she to meet it?
"He meant Mr.Felix, and if you had only listened, my lady, he would have--" "Yes, I knew he did--although he did not dare say it," she cried with sudden intensity, sinking deeper back in her pillow as if to protect herself even from Martha.

"I did not listen, for I never want to hear his name again.