I am "Lady Montbarry," and she is "the Countess." In that way there will be no confusion .-- Yes, Mrs.Rolland was in my service before she became the Countess's maid.

She was a perfectly trustworthy person, with one defect that obliged me to send her away--a sullen temper which led to perpetual complaints of her in the servants' hall.

Would you like to see her ?' Agnes accepted the proposal, in the faint hope of getting some information for the courier's wife.

The complete defeat of every attempt to trace the lost man had been accepted as final by Mrs.
Ferrari.

She had deliberately arrayed herself in widow's mourning; and was earning her livelihood in an employment which the unwearied kindness of Agnes had procured for her in London.