She found their manner curt, changed, and cold.
'You need return no more,' she was told.
'Why?'
'You failed to give satisfaction when we found you employment last.'
'In what way?' asked Mary, in a breathless voice.
'Lady Dunkeld informed us that you left the house abruptly and in a mysterious way.'
Lady Dunkeld! So she in the plentitude of her wealth, power, and position was following up with a vendetta poor Mary Wellwood.
CHAPTER V.
'SOME DAY.'
The sale of Ellinor's landscape for a sum beyond what she had expected for it, came like a gleam of hope to the two lonely girls, and the place in the window where it had hung so long was now empty.