"Send instantly for Mr.Null," she said to the maid.
"If he is out, let the messenger follow him, wherever he may be." The messenger came back with a note.

Mr.Null would call on Mrs.
Gallilee as soon as possible.

He was then engaged in attendance on Miss Carmina.
At that discovery, Mrs.Gallilee's last reserves of independent resolution gave way.

The services of her own medical attendant were only at her disposal, when Carmina had done with him! At the top of his letter the address, which she had thus far tried vainly to discover, stared her in the face: the house was within five minutes' walk--and she was not even able to cross the room! For the first time in her life, Mrs.Gallilee's imperious spirit acknowledged defeat.

For the first time in her life, she asked herself the despicable question: Who can I find to help me?
Someone knocked at the door.
"Who is it ?" she cried.
Joseph's voice answered her.