Cyril. When I returned, I found
her in the fit, and you standing over her.'
'No, don't get up, Sinfi, my girl,' I heard Cyril say. 'Sit down
quietly, and I will tell you what, passed. There is no doubt I did
ask her about her father, poor thing; but I did it with the best
intentions--did it for her good, as I thought--did it to learn
whether she had been kidnapped, and certainly not from idle
curiosity.'
'Scepticism, the curse of the age,' said Wilderspin.
I heard Cyril say, 'Who could have thought it would turn out so? But
you yourself had told me, Wilderspin, of Mother Gudgeon's injunction
not to ask the girl who her father was, and of course it had upon me
the opposite effect the funny hag had intended it to have upon you.
It was hard to believe that such a flower could have sprung from such
a root. I thought it very likely that the woman had told you this to
prevent your getting at the truth about their connection; so I
decided to question the model myself, but determined to wait till you
had had a good number of sittings, lest there should come a quarrel
with the woman.
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