The horrid interloper!" "She may be here any minute," said Mrs.De Peyster.

"What are we going to do ?" "We must think of something quick," spoke up Matilda nervously.

"For it's almost time for your funeral, ma'am, and after that--" "I've been thinking all the voyage over," broke in Olivetta.

"And I could think of only one plan." "And that ?" Mrs.De Peyster eagerly inquired.
There was an excited, desperate light in Olivetta's flooding eyes.
"Couldn't you manage, in some way, while nobody is looking, to slip into that Frenchwoman's place; and then, before the ceremony was over, you could sit up and say you'd been in a cataleptic fit.

Such things have happened.