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"Are you doing right, Dora?"

"If you only kne he had tortured me! Father and mother think he deserves all I can do to hioes to the asylum he threatened me with, I shall be barely satisfied The 'cat-faced wos now"

"Have you never spoken to hiht me one day as I came out of our house, and said, 'Madam, where is my son?' And I answered, 'You have no son The child WAS MINE You shall never see his face in this world I have taken good care of that'

"'I will find hihed at hily hid Do you think I would let the boy know he had such a father as you? No, indeed Not unless there was property for the disgrace' I touched hie and told the coachman to drive quickly Mostyn atte the horses was in the way" And Dora laughed, and the laugh was cruel and

"Dora, how can you? How can you find pleasure in such revenges?"

"I areatest satisfaction ofthe just retribution, for ain, and he is on the road to a et a divorce? This is a case for that reain, and you also"

"Even so, I should still torht that his unknown son ht, on his death, take from them the precious Mostyn estate, and that wretched, old, haunted house of his I a here with you?"

"Bothto take a year's rest, and we shall visit Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Paris or wherever our fancy leads us"

"And Mr Mostyn?"

"He can follow s pay court to the beauty of the 'cat-faced woman' I shall never notice him, never speak to him; but you need not look so suspicious, Ethel Neither by word nor deed will I break a single convention of the strictest respectability"