She evidently was not thinking of Lottie, nor yet of the advertisements, until one struck her notice as being very singular.

Holding it a little more to the light she said: "Possibly this is the very person I want--only the child might be an objection.

Just listen," and Anna read as follows: "WANTED--By an unfortunate young married woman, with a child a few months old, a situation in a private family either as governess, seamstress, or lady's maid.

Country preferred.

Address--" Anna was about to say whom when a violent ringing of the bell announced an arrival, and the next moment a tall young man, exceedingly Frenchified in his appearance, entered the room, and was soon in the arms of his mother.
John, hastening to where Anna sat, wound his arms around her light figure, and kissed her white lips and looked into her face with an expression, which told that, however indifferent he might be to others, he was not so to Anna.
"You have not changed for the worse," he said.