Well, the Doctor's got her into it, up to the eyes.

I reckon she's mortgaged everything to him." It required all Carroll's trained self-possession to prevent his garrulous guide from reading his emotion in his face.

This, then, was the secret of Maruja's melancholy.

Poor child! how bravely she had borne up under it; and HE, in his utter selfishness, had never suspected it.

Perhaps that letter was her delicate way of breaking the news to him, for he should certainly now hear it all from Aladdin's lips.