Now take the letter to the study, and go." Phillis hesitated.

She looked again and again at that calm, proud, innocent lady, whom she had so wickedly misjudged and maligned, how far and how fatally her own conscience alone could tell.

And Phillis knew what innocence was, for, poor woman, she had known what it was not.

Malice also she knew; and judging her mistress by herself, she trembled.
"If you're going to bear spite against me for this, I'd best give warning at once, Mrs.Grey--only it would nigh break my heart to leave the children." "I have no wish for you to leave the children, and I never bear spite against anybody.

Life is not long enough for it," added Mrs.Grey, sighing.