5/18 For the time, what she had heard in the conservatory, while they were reading the Will, lost its tempting influence. She remained in the room for half an hour more--and she left it without having borrowed a farthing. "I have been treating you as if I had a sister," she said; "you don't think me too familiar, I hope ?" "I wish I was your sister, God knows!" The words were hardly out of her mouth before she was startled by her own fervour. "Shall I tell you what to do with Mrs.Gallilee ?" she said abruptly. "Write her a little note." "Yes! yes! and you will take it for me ?" Carmina's eyes brightened through her tears, the suggestion was such a relief! In a minute the note was written: "My dear Aunt, I have behaved very badly, and I am very much ashamed of it. |