6/15 There is nothing to be got hold of. Take this letter to my husband's study--it is his affair. I have no communications whatever with Sir Edwin Uniacke." Phillis looked utterly amazed. Though her mistress did not speak another word, there was something in her manner--her perfect, quiet conviction of innocence, self-asserted, though without any open self- defense, which struck the woman more than any amount of anger would have done. |