She says you wish the children to have a holiday." "Yes, to go with my son and Miss Carmina to the Zoological Gardens." "Miss Carmina said I was to go too." "Miss Carmina was perfectly right." The governess fixed her searching eyes on Mrs.Gallilee.

"You really wish me to go with them ?" she said.
"I do." "I know why." In the course of their experience, Mrs.Gallilee and Miss Minerva had once quarrelled fiercely--and Mrs.Gallilee had got the worst of it.
She learnt her lesson.

For the future she knew how to deal with her governess.

When one said, "I know why," the other only answered, "Do you ?" "Let's have it out plainly, ma'am," Miss Minerva proceeded.

"I am not to let Mr.Ovid" (she laid a bitterly strong emphasis on the name, and flushed angrily)--"I am not to let Mr.Ovid and Miss Carmina be alone together." "You are a good guesser," Mrs.Gallilee remarked quietly.
"No," said Miss Minerva more quietly still; "I have only seen what you have seen." "Did I tell you what I have seen ?" "Quite needless, ma'am.