"
And then suddenly she realised how ungracious her words must sound.
"No, no," she cried, impetuously. "Of course, I do not mean that! I had a
very, very happy time, and your sister was very kind and sweet to me. But
it makes me unhappy to think that Anna may have been worried and anxious
about money with me away--"
There was a pause, and then, in a very different voice, Sylvia Bailey
asked the Comte de Virieu a question that seemed to him utterly
irrelevant.
"Do you believe in fortune-tellers?" she asked abruptly. "Are you
superstitious?"
"Like everyone else, I have been to such people," he answered
indifferently. "But if you ask my true opinion--well, no; I am quite
sceptical! There may be something in what these dealers in hope sometimes
say, but more often there is nothing. In fact, you must remember that a
witch generally tells her client what she believes her client wishes to
hear."
"Madame Wachner is inclined to think that Anna left Lacville because of
something which a fortune-teller told her--indeed told both of us--before
we came here.
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