Apparently Neaera did. She shivered and moaned.
“But I’ve got it,” continued Nemesis; and, she bounded across the room to a cupboard. “There, read that.”
George took it calmly, but read it with secret eagerness. It was the original character, and stated that Miss Gale began her service in May, not March, 1883.
“I caught her a-copying it, and altering dates. My, how I did——”
“Dear, dear!” interrupted George. “I was afraid it was something new. Anything else, Mrs. Bort?”
Mrs. Bort was beaten.
“Go along,” she said. “If you likes it, it’s nothing to me. But lock up your money-box.”
“Let me congratulate you, Mrs. Bort, on having done your duty.”
“I’m an honest woman,” said Mrs. Bort.