"You have, doubtless, turned her from this monstrous love?"
"I!" she replied, with a grin, "I did not say a word to her about it."
"What!" he said, in amazement.
"By what right could I have spoken?"
"How, by what right—Are you not her mother?"
"She does not know it!"
"Oh!"
"And my vengeance?" she said, coldly. This word which so thoroughly explained the character of the woman, had before struck the heart of the old soldier with terror.
"Unhappy woman!" he exclaimed.
A smile of disdain curled the She-wolf's lip.