You mean that I must never tell mamma anything about papa and--Miss Reinhart ?" "Heaven bless the child!" cried the startled woman; "you could not have understood better or more had you been twenty years old." "It is love for mamma that teaches me that and everything else," I answered.
"Ah, well, Miss Laura, since you speak frankly to me, so will I to you.
I would not say one word against Sir Roland for all the world.

Before she came he was the kindest and most devoted of husbands; since she has been here he has changed, there is no doubt of it--terribly changed.

My lady does not know all that we know.

She thinks he is tired of always seeing her ill.

She only suspects about Miss Reinhart, she is not sure, and it must be the work of our lives to keep her from knowing the truth." "Emma," I ventured to interrupt, "do you think it is the truth ?" "Yes, I fear so; and, Miss Laura, you must bear one thing in mind, if ever my lady knows it to be the truth it will kill her.