saw each other alone but once. That was at our house in the summer. Mr. Govett called unexpected. He didn't stay but an hour. I happened to go into my mistress's sitting-room where they were, and I saw them. I saw by the way they looked at each other how...how it was with them both. How it would always be. I had never seen anything like that..." She was unable to go on.
IV
Barry Govett was the most prominent bachelor in New York society. I had been reading about him in the papers for years. His
what we wanted of her. I looked at her with a strong interest. Through my association with Mme. Storey I have learned to read character to some degree, and I said to myself that the lady who secured this girl would be lucky. Good servants are rare.
I took her in to Madame Storey.
"Do you know who I am?" asked my mistress.