'He would
not wish to kill me.'
'But he will say that he loves baby as well as you do.'
'He will never take my child from me. He could never be so bad as
that.'
'And you will never be so bad as to leave him,' said Nora after a
pause. 'I will not believe that it can come to that. You know that he
is good at heart, that nobody on earth loves you as he does.'
So they went on for two days, and on the evening the second day there
came a letter from Trevelyan to his wife. They had neither of them seen
him, although he had been in and out of the house. And on the afternoon
of the Sunday a new grievance, a very terrible grievance, was added to
those which Mrs Trevelyan was made to bear. Her husband had told one of
the servants in the house that Colonel Osborne was not to be admitted.
And the servant to whom he had given this order was the cook. There is
no reason why a cook should be less trustworthy in such a matter than
any other servant; and in Mr Trevelyan's household there was a reason
why she should be more so as she, and she alone, was what we generally
call an old family domestic.
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