Could it be that after all she had married her father because she loved him, and not because he was Captain Danton of Danton Hall?
"Father Francis ought to know," she mused; "and Father Francis sings her praises on every occasion.

I know Eeny loves her dearly, and the servants like and respect her in a manner I never saw surpassed.

Can it be that I have been blind, and unjust, and prejudiced from first to last, and that my father's wife is a thousand times better than I am ?" The two women sat together in the sick-room all the forenoon.

Kate talked to her step-mother far more socially and kindly than she had ever talked to her before, and was surprised to find Grace had a ready knowledge of every subject she started.

She smiled at herself by and by in a little pause in the conversation.
"She is really very pleasant," she thought.