It was a starveling sort of hope that lived a lingering life in me
until to-day. You struck it dead, when you answered my question
about Ferrari.'
'How have I destroyed your hopes?' Agnes asked. 'What connection is
there between my permitting Ferrari to use my name to Lord Montbarry,
and the strange and dreadful things you are saying to me now?'
'The time is near, Miss Lockwood, when you will discover that
for yourself. In the mean while, you shall know what my fear of you is,
in the plainest words I can find. On the day when I took your hero
from you and blighted your life--I am firmly persuaded of it!--
you were made the instrument of the retribution that my sins
of many years had deserved. Oh, such things have happened before
to-day! One person has, before now, been the means of innocently
ripening the growth of evil in another. You have done that already--
and you have more to do yet. You have still to bring me to the day
of discovery, and to the punishment that is my doom. We shall
meet again--here in England, or there in Venice where my husband died--
and meet for the last time.
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