A ray of joy flitted over her features, the first after a long, long time.

"Oh, I am so glad that you said that, Esther; I am more glad than you can think," she said eagerly.

"If you had not said that, they would have thought all their lives that I had done it and denied it.

But how does Mina know who did it ?" "She knows, because she did it herself," Esther replied.
"Oh, oh! So she did it with her own feet," Cornelli exclaimed.

"It is better that she has gone then.