In what way she expected Flora de Barral to set about saving herself from a most miserable existence I can't conceive; but I verify believe that she would have found it easier to forgive the girl an actual crime; say the rifling of the Bournemouth old lady's desk, for instance.

And then--for Mrs.Fyne was very much of a woman herself--her sense of proprietorship was very strong within her; and though she had not much use for her brother, yet she did not like to see him annexed by another woman.

By a chit of a girl.

And such a girl, too.

Nothing is truer than that, in this world, the luckless have no right to their opportunities--as if misfortune were a legal disqualification.