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And by that sensation of hatred of his
knowledge she measured the gulf between them. When had come the very
first narrow fissure she scarcely knew. But she knew how to-day the
gulf had widened.
The permission of hers to Vere to read Emile's books! And Emile's
authority governing her child, substituted surely for hers! The gulf
had been made wider by her learning that episode; and the fact that
secretly she felt her permission ought never to have been given caused
her the more bitterness. Vere had yielded to Emile because he had been
in the right. Instinctively her child had known which of the two with
whom she had to deal was swayed by an evil mood, and which was
thinking rightly, only for her.
Could Vere see into her mother's heart?
Hermione had a moment of panic. Then she laughed at her folly.
And she thought of Peppina, of that other secret which certainly
existed, but which she had never suspected till that day.
The boat was gone, and she knew where. She went back into the house
and rang the bell.


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