You know what an evil tongue the world has." Dame Kramm took the money.

Why, indeed, should she not have taken it?
Any one else, in her place, would have done the same thing.

The secret benefactor had given her no cause for suspicion.

He remained unknown to her, and insisted on remaining unknown; but he had forewarned her of the machinations of others, and acted himself as the guardian of defenceless virtue.

What more could he do?
Madam Kramm took the money, I say, and secretly hired music and singing masters for Fanny, to whom alone she told anything about the matter.