She is the most desperate wretch I ever heard of! If she can't get
my money by fair means, she threatens to have it by foul. Miss Garth has
told me that to my face. To my face!" he repeated, folding his arms, and
looking mortally insulted.
"Compose yourself, sir," said Mrs. Lecount. "Pray compose yourself, and
leave me to speak to Miss Garth. I regret to hear, ma'am, that you have
forgotten what I said to you in the next room. You have agitated Mr.
Noel; you have compromised the interests you came here to plead; and you
have only repeated what we knew before. The language you have allowed
yourself to use in my absence is the same language which your pupil was
foolish enough to employ when she wrote for the second time to my late
master. How can a lady of your years and experience seriously repeat
such nonsense? This girl boasts and threatens. She will do this; she
will do that. You have her confidence, ma'am. Tell me, if you please, in
plain words, what can she do?"
Sharply as the taunt was pointed, it glanced off harmless. Mrs.
Lecount had planted her sting once too often. Magdalen rose in complete
possession of her assumed character and composedly terminated the
interview.
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