"Some cause is at work here," he said to the mother, "which I don't understand.

Can you help me ?" Mrs.
Linley helped him without hesitation.

"My little daughter dearly loved her governess; and her governess has been obliged to leave us." That was her reply.

The doctor wanted to hear no more; he at once advised that Kitty should be taken to the seaside, and that everything which might remind her of the absent friend--books, presents, even articles of clothing likely to revive old associations--should be left at home.

A new life, in new air.