Can I do anything for
you?" as they reached the gate of Aucuba Villa.
"No, thank you, unless to get the house off my hands."
"You are alone. Will you not come and spend the evening with us?"
"That is very kind, but I have too much to do, and besides, Sister
Margaret is coming to spend the night with me."
"I am glad to hear it."
"Yes, Mr. Charnock, I trust I have learnt something in this spell of
work. I've not been for nothing in such scenes with those Sisters
and young Bowater. I'm more ignorant than half the poor things that
I've heard talk of their faith and hope; but I see it is not the
decorous humbug it once looked like. And now that I would have
learnt, here I go to Monaco."
"You will learn. You have a work before you that will teach you."
"My boys are young enough to start with on a different tack," she
said. "You will tell me--no--I'll not hinder you now. I shall see
you again."
Julius was too anxious to get home to refuse to be released, much as
he felt for this brave woman. The day before, Herbert had been
frightfully faint and exhausted by the morning's attack of fever,
but had been so still ever since that there was a shade of hope that
the recurrence might not take place; and this hope grew stronger,
when Jenny came into the outer room to say that the usual time for
the fever was passing so quietly in a sort of sleep that Dr.
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