But, though the governess had come in there for the very purpose of taking the mask off for the first time in her life, she seemed to look upon the frightened cry as a fresh provocation.

"What are you screaming for, you little fool ?" she said advancing alone close to the girl who was affected exactly as if she had seen Medusa's head with serpentine locks set mysteriously on the shoulders of that familiar person, in that brown dress, under that hat she knew so well.

It made her lose all her hold on reality.

She told Mrs.Fyne: "I didn't know where I was.

I didn't even know that I was frightened.