Kitty's voice was audible on the stairs that led to the picture-gallery, disputing with the maid.

Neither her father nor her mother heard her.
"Miss Westerfield is innocent of having wronged me, except in thought," Mrs.Linley resumed.

"Do you tell me that on your word of honor ?" "On my word of honor." So far his wife was satisfied.

"My governess," she said, "might have deceived me--she has not deceived me.

I owe it to her to remember that.
She shall go, but not helpless and not friendless." Her husband forgot the restraints he had imposed on himself.
"Is there another woman in the world like you!" he exclaimed.
"Many other women," she answered, firmly.