As certainly as I sit here, she is going to open the campaign against Noel Vanstone and Mrs.Lecount in a character which neither of those two persons can have any possible reason for suspecting at the outset--the character of Miss Garth.
What course am I to take under these circumstances?
Having got her secret, what am I to do with it?
These are awkward considerations; I am rather puzzled how to deal with them.
It is something more than the mere fact of her choosing to disguise herself to forward her own private ends that causes my present perplexity.

Hundreds of girls take fancies for disguising themselves; and hundreds of instances of it are related year after year in the public journals.

But my ex-pupil is not to be confounded for one moment with the average adventuress of the newspapers.

She is capable of going a long way beyond the limit of dressing herself like a man, and imitating a man's voice and manner.

She has a natural gift for assuming characters which I have never seen equaled by a woman; and she has performed in public until she has felt her own power, and trained her talent for disguising herself to the highest pitch.