"
"If she will love our children and watch over them in our absence," she
whispered, but I caught the words. Then aloud, "Yes, thank you, Alick, I
should like to try her. I think she would make Joyce happy. I can go and
see Mrs. Keith this afternoon when I am out driving, and perhaps I could
arrange for her to come soon."
"Very well," he returned, briefly, but he spoke in the old dry manner,
as though he were not quite pleased. "When you are disengaged will you
join me in the library? I have some more letters I want copied."
"I will be ready soon," she said, with a sweet grateful glance at him,
as though she had received some unexpected bounty at his hands, and as
he wished me good morning, and left the room, she continued, eagerly,
"Will you come with me now and make acquaintance with the children. I
have seen them already this morning, so they will not expect me, and it
will be such a surprise. My little girl is always with me while I dress.
I have so little time to devote to them; but I snatch every moment."
She sighed as she spoke, and I began to understand, in a dim, groping
sort of way, that fate is not so unequal after all, that even this
beautiful creature had unsatisfied wants in her life, that it was
possible that wealth and position were to her only tiresome barriers
dividing her from her little ones.
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