You are going to use Mr.Le Frank as a means of making mischief between Ovid and Carmina.

If you had taken me into your confidence, I might have been willing to help you.

As it is, please observe that I am not caught in the trap you have set for me.

If Mr.Ovid discovers your little plot, you can't lay the blame on your governess's advice." Mrs.Gallilee felt that she had again measured herself with Miss Minerva, and had again been beaten.

She had confidently reckoned on the governess's secret feeling towards her son to encourage, without hesitation or distrust, any project for promoting the estrangement of Ovid and Carmina.