The old woman's eyes kindled as she spoke.

She took Celia to the fortune-teller's rooms next day, and the girl quickly understood the ruling passion of the woman who had befriended her.

It took very little time then for Celia to notice how easily Mme.

Dauvray was duped, how perpetually she was robbed.

Celia turned the problem over in her mind.
"Madame had been very good to me.