'
This was a great deal from Lady Knollys, who had a taste for advising her
friends and managing their affairs.
'I've a great respect for instinct. I believe, Austin, it is truer than
reason, and yours and Maud's are both against me, though I know I have
reason on my side.'
My father's brief wintry smile answered, and Cousin Monica kissed me, and
said--
'I've been so long my own mistress that I sometimes forget there are such
things as fear and jealousy; and are you going to your governess, Maud?'
CHAPTER XIV
_ANGRY WORDS_
I was going to my governess, as Lady Knollys said; and so I went. The
undefinable sense of danger that smote me whenever I beheld that woman had
deepened since last night's occurrence, and was taken out of the region
of instinct or prepossession by the strange though slight indications of
recognition and abhorrence which I had witnessed in Lady Knollys on that
occasion.
The tone in which Cousin Monica had asked, 'are you going to your
governess?' and the curious, grave, and anxious look that accompanied the
question, disturbed me; and there was something odd and cold in the tone as
if a remembrance had suddenly chilled her.
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