By means of the music-master, she had planned to give Ovid jealous reasons for doubting Carmina--and she had failed.

By means of the governess, she had planned to give Carmina jealous reasons for doubting Ovid--and she had failed.

When some people talked of Fatality, were they quite such fools as she had hitherto supposed them to be?
It would be a waste of time to inquire.

What next step could she take?
Urged by the intolerable sense of defeat to find reasons for still looking hopefully to the future, the learned Mrs.Gallilee lowered herself to the intellectual level of the most ignorant servant in the house.

The modern Muse of Science unconsciously opened her mind to the vulgar belief in luck.