The first quarterly payment of Carmina's allowance of five hundred a year had been already made, by Mool's advice.

Enough was left--even without the assistance which the nurse's resources would render--to purchase the necessary outfit, and to take the two women to Quebec.

On the day after Teresa's arrival (at an hour of the morning while the servants were still in bed) Carmina and her companion could escape from the house on foot--and not leave a trace behind them.
Meanwhile, Fortune befriended Mrs.Gallilee's maid.

No questions were put to her; no notice even was taken of the late return.
Five minutes before the carriage drew up at the house, a learned female friend from the country called, by appointment, on Mrs.Gallilee.On the coming Tuesday afternoon, an event of the deepest scientific interest was to take place.

A new Professor had undertaken to deliver himself, by means of a lecture, of subversive opinions on "Matter." A general discussion was to follow; and in that discussion (upon certain conditions) Mrs.Gallilee herself proposed to take part.
"If the Professor attempts to account for the mutual action of separate atoms," she said, "I defy him to do it, without assuming the existence of a continuous material medium in space.