We all three know that Ovid persists in remaining in London--" She paused, on the point of finishing the sentence.

Although she _had_ converted a Professor, Mrs.Gallilee was still only a woman.

There did enter into her other calculations, the possibility of exciting some accidental betrayal of her governess's passion for her son.

On alluding to Ovid, she turned suddenly to Miss Minerva.

"I am sure you will excuse my troubling you with family anxieties," she said--"especially when they are connected with the health of my son." It was cleverly done, but it laboured under one disadvantage.