"But how? When? Where?"
"That is for you to settle. Watch him, stick to him, dog his footsteps, follow him wherever he goes. Some day he must give you a chance."
"Leave it to me. The moment will come when I shall sheathe my knife in his heart."
"I think I can trust you. Only do it well, and never let me see him again."
CHAPTER XXII.
MR. HOBSON CALLS.
The Arcadia went direct from Gibraltar to Southampton, where Mrs. Wilders left it and returned to London.
It was necessary for her to review her position and look things in the face. Her circumstances were undoubtedly straitened since her husband's death. She had her pension as the widow of a general officer—but this was a mere pittance at best—and the interest of the small private fortune settled, at the time of the marriage, on her and her children, should she have any. Her income from both these sources amounted to barely £300 a year—far too meagre an amount according to her present ideas, burdened as she was, moreover, with the care and education of a child.