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She might have been left in the Priory to the end of time had not the high-toned governess threatened to send in her resignation.

She didn't care for the child a bit, and the lonely, gloomy Priory had got on her nerves.

She wasn't going to put up with such a life and, having just come out of some ducal family, she bullied de Barral in a very lofty fashion.