On the other hand, he had privately secured a firm ally in his
sister-in-law. 'Have a little patience,' the new Lady Montbarry
had said, 'and leave me to turn the influence of the children
in the right direction. If they can persuade her to listen to you--
they shall!'
The two ladies had accompanied Henry, and some other guests
who went away at the same time, to the railway station,
and had just driven back to the house, when the servant announced
that 'a person of the name of Rolland was waiting to see her ladyship.'
'Is it a woman?'
'Yes, my lady.'
Young Lady Montbarry turned to Agnes.
'This is the very person,' she said, 'whom your lawyer thought
likely to help him, when he was trying to trace the lost courier.'
'You don't mean the English maid who was with Lady Montbarry
at Venice?'
'My dear! don't speak of Montbarry's horrid widow by the name
which is my name now. Stephen and I have arranged to call her by
her foreign title, before she was married. I am "Lady Montbarry,"
and she is "the Countess." In that way there will be no confusion.--
Yes, Mrs. Rolland was in my service before she became the Countess's maid.
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