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Not so Lionel. He laid his hand upon her
shoulder in his grave kindness.
"Sibylla, do you forget that we have no longer the means to keep
ourselves? I must find a way to do that, before I can afford you a
lady's maid. My dear, I am very sorry; you know I am; for that, and all
the other discomforts that you are meeting with; but there is no help
for it. I trust that some time or other I shall be able to remedy it."
"We should not have to keep her," argued Sibylla. "She'd live with Lady
Verner's servants."
Neither did he remind her that Lady Verner would have sufficient tax,
keeping himself and her. One would have thought her own delicacy of
feeling might have suggested it.
"It cannot be, Sibylla. Lady Verner has no accommodation for Benoite."
"She must make accommodation. When people used to come here to visit us,
they brought their servants with them."
"Oh, Sibylla! can you not see the difference? But--what do you owe
Benoite?" he added in a different tone.
"I don't owe her anything," replied Sibylla eagerly, quite mistaking the
motive of the question.


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