Excerpt from My Enemy's Daughter, Vol. 3 of 3: A NovelFor all had happened as I told Christina. I had acted on the idea of making Lilla the younger the angelic, celestial mediatrix in the whole of the painful business. I felt sure that her inuence over her father would have power enough to induce him, for the sake of the other Lilla, to buy off or pension off in some way his wretched brother send him to America or Australia, or anywhere out of the way. Many times I passed her door to no purpose. One day at last I saw her as her groom was holding her horse's head and she was about to mount. Perhaps if she had not seen me then, and cordially recognised me, I might not have ventured to speak to her; but she did see me, and gave me a frank and friendly recogni tion; and then I went up and presented myself to her, and told her without hesitation that I came Of my own counsel, unasked by anybody, unknown to anybody, to plead for her good offices on behalf of her cousin, the other Lilla. What ever of secrecy might afterwards have grown up, this at least was done openly, at her father's door.

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