I will send your money to you by Mrs.Rusk; and if you look for another situation, you had better not refer to me.

Now be so good as to leave me.' Madame seemed to be in a strange perplexity.

She bridled up, dried her eyes fiercely, and dropped a great courtesy, and then sailed away towards the door.

Before reaching it she stopped on the way, turning half round, with a peaked, pallid glance at my father, and she bit her lip viciously as she eyed him.

At the door the same repulsive pantomime was repeated, as she stood for a moment with her hand upon the handle.