It was a principle of hers that society ought to ignore them.

And I believe Miss Galindo had always agreed with her until now, when the thing came home to her womanly heart.

Still she shrank from having this child of some strange woman under her roof.

She went over to see it from time to time; she worked at its clothes long after every one thought she was in bed; and, when the time came for Bessy to be sent to school, Miss Galindo laboured away more diligently than ever, in order to pay the increased expense.

For the Gibson family had, at first, paid their part of the compact, but with unwillingness and grudging hearts; then they had left it off altogether, and it fell hard on Dr.Trevor with his twelve children; and, latterly, Miss Galindo had taken upon herself almost all the burden.