It was a face fit for trust.
"Very well," said she at length, quietly.

"If you think it is necessary." It was thus that Josephine St.Auban became the head of Tallwoods household.

Not that week did she leave, nor the next, nor the one thereafter.

The winter advanced, it was about to wane, and still she remained.

Slowly, the master advanced toward recovery.
Meantime, under charge of the mistress, the household machine fell once more into proper ways.