"Is there any hope," she asked, "of my seeing Rhoda Bennet ?" "Why do you wish to see her ?" "You are fond of her, Miss---that is one reason." "And the other ?" "Rhoda Bennet might help me to serve you as I want to serve you; she might perhaps encourage me to try if I could follow her example." Fanny paused, and clasped her hands fervently.

The thought that was in her forced its way to expression.

"It's so easy to feel grateful," she said--"and, oh, so hard to show it!" "Come to me," her new mistress answered, "and show it to-morrow." Moved by that compassionate impulse, Iris said the words which restored to an unfortunate creature a lost character and a forfeited place in the world..