notice that you have found another place — that you beg me to look out for a new governess, &c. — Eh?”

“No: Ad�le is not answerable for either her mother’s faults or yours: I have a regard for her; and now that I know she is, in a sense, parentless — forsaken by her mother and disowned by you, sir — I shall cling closer to her than before. How could I possibly prefer the spoilt pet of a wealthy family, who would hate her governess as a nuisance, to a lonely little orphan, who leans towards her as a friend?”

“Oh, that is the light in which you view it!

Well, I must go in now; and you too: it darkens.”

But I stayed out a few minutes longer with Ad�le and Pilot