"I

hate

him!" said she; but she looked very guilty.

[X]

In the living-hall of Selwoode Miss Hugonin paused. Undeniably there

were the accounts of the Ladies' League for the Edification of the

Impecunious to be put in order; her monthly report as treasurer

was due in a few days, and Margaret was in such matters a careful,

painstaking body, and not wholly dependent upon her secretary; but she

was entirely too much out of temper to attend to that now.