you have your month's wages in lieu of warning."

"Very well, my lady!--Please, your ladyship, when may I come and see the
child?"

"Not at all. There is no necessity."

"Never, my lady?"

"Decidedly."

"Then at least I may ask why you send me away so suddenly!"

"I told you that I want a properly qualified nurse to take your place. My
wish is to have the child more immediately under my own eye than would be
agreeable if you kept your place. I hope I speak plainly!"

"Quite, my lady."

"And let me, for your own sake, recommend you to behave more respectfully
when you find another place."

What she was doing lady Ann was incapable of knowing. A woman
love-brooding over a child is at the gate of heaven; to take her child
from her is to turn her away from more than paradise.

Jane went in silence, seeming to accept the inevitable, too proud to wipe
away the tear whose rising she could not help--a tear not for herself,
nor yet for the child, but for the dead mother in whose place she left
such a woman. She walked slowly back to the nursery, where her charge was