Out of her sphere - University Library

106 OUT OF HER SPHERE.
*' There has been a shock to the nervous
system, or perhaps less a shock than a
long continuous strain. He has been living
at high pressure too long, doing the work
of half a dozen men, in this parish, and
now the reaction has come, and I doubt
whether he will ever get over it. Poor
fellow ! IVe
warned him of it, but he
would n't be warned, and what could one
dor
Then Clare rejoiced, and as she thought
of Audley Dale, and all that a little time
might bring about, her green eyes bright-
ened with an evil light, and she almost
smiled as her needle flew in and out of her
work. '^ It'll come home to him at last,"
she thought, " it'll come home. But, oh
dear ! why
do n't some one tell them to go
and look in the Fort ?"
Then it occurred to her, might she not
be that some one ? Why could she not
tell her story plausibly, and smoothly, and