“My child,” she exclaims softly, “can it be, that after all these years of weary, lonely suffering, I am awaking to find in you, you, the offspring of a forbidden love, the messenger that shall awake the world to woman’s wrongs, and make suffering such as I have endured no longer possible?”
“Yes, mother, I feel it,” answers Gloria earnestly; “and that is why I have made my plans to-day. Everything must have a beginning you know, mother, and therefore I must begin, and begin at once. You must help me, mother darling. I can do nothing without your co-operation.”
“Tell me your plans, Gloria, and mother will help you if she can.”
“My plans are many, but the first must have a premier consideration. Mother, I must go to school.”
“To school, child! I thought you always have begged me not to send you to school.”
“It must be to a boy’s school, mother. You must send me to Eton.”
“To Eton?”
“Yes, mother; don’t you understand?”
Here a retrospect is necessary to enable the reader to comprehend the above conversation.