And you answered by saying to me, Guess who he is.
My aunt has just told me that he is her son.

Has she spoken the truth ?' "I am now waiting to receive Miss Minerva's reply.
"For the first time since I have been in the house, my door is locked.

I cannot, and will not, see Mrs.Gallilee again.

All her former cruelties are, as I feel it, nothing to the cruelty of her coming here when I am ill, and saying to me what she has said.
"The weary time passes, and still there is no reply.

Is Frances angry?
or is she hesitating how to answer me--personally or by writing?
No! she has too much delicacy of feeling to answer in her own person.
"I have only done her justice.