Presently Herring went on: ’You will find, Countess, that a sum sufficient for the maintenance of the house, and for your comfort, is lodged in the bank, in your name, and that the same sum will be paid quarterly. You can draw as you require. This house, with all its contents, is yours. Everything has been purchased and paid for in your name.’ ’Mr. Herring,’ put in Orange, speaking with a flushed cheek and a quivering lip, ’what are we here?’ ’You have been kind to her when she needed a home, you have done your best to make her comfortable, now you are the guests in this house of the Countess Mirelle Garcia.’ A cry of joy from the upper story, and down the flight and into the room rushed Mrs. Trampleasure, laughing and crying. ’They are there, they are there, my Orange! Oh, joy!’ ’What are there, mother?’ ’My own satin pinkies.’ ’They are not yours,’ said Orange, with a curl of the lip and a hard look settling into her eyes. ’They, like everything else, have been purchased in the name of the Countess Mirelle Garcia de Cantalejo.’ She stood and looked at Mirelle from head to foot. A battle was raging in her heart. Should the rage and hate boiling there overflow her lips? She caught Herring’s eye fixed inquiringly, suspiciously, on her. Then she dropped a profound curtsey to Mirelle, and said, ’We are not your guests, gracious Countess, but your most humble and obliged servants.’ Then Mirelle threw her arms round Orange, and kissed her cheeks and brow and mouth. ’Dear, dear Orange!’ she said, and her tears flowed, ’do not speak thus. You are nothing other to me than a sister.’ Then she looked round to thank Herring, but he was gone. *CHAPTER XXXVII.* *A SECOND SUMMONS.* Herring was gone. He did not remain to explain how it was that everything had fallen to Mirelle. He went because he did not desire to explain anything. In his own mind he had debated what was best to be done. Should he inform her that she had a fortune, part of which he had invested in the West Wyke mortgages, and part he was about to sink in the Upaver lead mine, and part still remained in uncut diamonds, not disposed of? Should he make over everything to her, and free himself of further responsibility?