Yet, I don't know.

Women are wonderfully soft-hearted, and certainly Rhoda is thought no end of by that fat woman." "Well! well!" said Lucian, impatient of this digression.

"So Rhoda went back to her tribe ?" "Yes, sir; and as she was sharp, clever, and, moreover, came with some money which she had stolen from Mrs.Bensusan--for she added theft to ingratitude--she was received with open arms.

With her gypsy cousins she went about in the true gypsy style, but, not being hardened to the outdoor life in wet weather, she fell ill." "Civilisation made her delicate, I suppose," said Denzil grimly.
"Exactly; she was not fit for the tent life after having lived for so long under a comfortable roof.

She fell ill with inflammation of the lungs, and in a wonderfully short space of time she died." "When did she confess her crime ?" "I'm coming to that, sir.