CHAPTER XIV.
THEY ARRIVE IN BRUSSELS.
For some weeks after the party at Mrs.Armitage's house, and the subsequent explanations with her mother, Florence was made to suffer many things.

First came the one week before they started, which was perhaps the worst of all.

This was specially embittered by the fact that Mrs.Mountjoy absolutely refused to divulge her plans as they were made.
There was still a fortnight before she could be received at Brussels, and as to that fortnight she would tell nothing.
Her knowledge of human nature probably went so far as to teach her that she could thus most torment her daughter.

It was not that she wished to torment her in a revengeful spirit.

She was quite sure within her own bosom that she did all in love.