Once or twice her mother tried to tell her of a place that must soon be empty, but her heart failed her.

So at last the end came like a sudden wind out of the north; and it was left to Guida Landresse de Landresse to fight the fight and finish the journey of womanhood alone.
This time was the turning-point in Guida's life.

What her mother had been to the Sieur de Mauprat, she soon became.

They had enough to live on simply.

Every week her grandfather gave her a fixed sum for the household.