Mrs.Presty asked what was to be done next.

Mr.Sarrazin answered: "Let us have our breakfast." In another quarter of an hour they were both in Mrs.Linley's room.
Her agitated manner, her reddened eyes, showed that she was still suffering under the emotions of the past night.

The moment the lawyer approached her, she crossed the room with hurried steps, and took both his hands in her trembling grasp.

"You are a good man, you are a kind man," she said to him wildly; "you have my truest respect and regard.
Tell me, are you--really--really--really sure that the one way in which I can keep my child with me is the way you mentioned last night ?" Mr.Sarrazin led her gently back to her chair.
The sad change in her startled and distressed him.

Sincerely, solemnly even, he declared that the one alternative before her was the alternative that he had mentioned.