She did not wish to meet Sir William, and yet at the same time there was an almost uncontrollable longing in her heart to see him once more. If she could look upon him without his seeing her, it would be all she would ask; she shrank from forcing herself upon his presence.
Still if it must be, she resolved to brace herself for the interview; she had determined that he should acknowledge Virgie as his child, and nothing should deter her from accomplishing her object.
“Very well,” she said, “I will be governed wholly by your advice. But what is this?” she added, as he laid a paper before her.
“I simply desire your signature to this document as a mere matter of form,” the lawyer told her.
Mrs. Alexander signed it and passed it back to him.
“Virginia N. Alexander,” he read; then he started.
“What is your middle name?” he asked.
“Norton. My grandmother was an English woman, by that name, before her marriage.”
“What was her Christian name?” Mr. Thurston asked, eagerly.
“Nora.”