You are putting your trust in the bitterest enemy you have; an enemy who secretly hates you with the unforgiving hatred of a rival!' "Look back at my letter, describing what passed between Miss Minerva and me, when I went to her room; and you will know what I felt on hearing her spoken of as 'a rival.' My sense of justice refused to believe it.
But, oh, my dear old nurse, there was some deeper sense in me that said, as if in words, It is true! "Mrs.Gallilee went on, without mercy.
"'I know her thoroughly; I have looked into her false heart.

Nobody has discovered her but me.

Charge her with it, if you like; and let her deny it if she dare.

Miss Minerva is secretly in love with my son.' "She got up.

Her object was gained: she was even with me, and with the woman who had befriended me, at last.
"'Lie down in your bed again,' she said, 'and think over what I have told you.