CHAPTER XX 

Credit me, friend, it hath been ever thus, Since the ark rested on Mount Ararat. False man hath sworn, and woman hath believed-- Repented and reproach'd, and then believed once more. _The New World._ 

By the time that Margaret returned with Monna Paula, the Lady Hermione was rising from the table at which she had been engaged in writing something on a small slip of paper, which she gave to her attendant. 

"Monna Paula," she said, "carry this paper to Roberts the cash-keeper; let them give you the money mentioned in the note, and bring it hither presently." 

Monna Paula left the room, and her mistress proceeded. 

"I do not know," she said, "Margaret, if I have done, and am doing, well in this affair. My life has been one of strange seclusion, and I am totally unacquainted with the practical ways of this world--an ignorance which I know cannot be remedied by mere reading.--I fear I am doing wrong to you, and perhaps to the laws of the country which affords me refuge, by thus indulging you; and yet there is something in my heart which cannot resist your entreaties." 

"O, listen to it--listen to it, dear, generous lady!" said Margaret, throwing herself on her knees and grasping those of her benefactress and looking in that attitude like a beautiful mortal in the act of supplicating her tutelary angel; "the laws of men are but the injunctions of mortality, but what the heart prompts is the echo of the voice from heaven within us."  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What is the name of the person that had been writing on a slip of paper?
2. What was the person that had been writing on a slip of paper called?
3. 
Q2:
1. What did Lady Hermione write on?
2. Lady Hermione wrote on what kind of object?
3. 
Q3:
1. What is the name of Lady Hermione's attendant?
2. What is Lady Hermione's attendant called?
3. 
Q4:
1. What is the name of the person that left the room?
2. What is the person that left the room called?
3. 
Q5:
1. What was Monna Paula to receive that was mentioned in the note?
2. What was mentioned in the note that Monna Paula was to receive?
3. 
Q6:
1. What is the name of the person that feels as if she has wronged Margaret?
2. What is the person that feels as if she has wronged Margaret called?
3. 
Q7:
1. Is Lady Hermione acquainted with practical ways of this world?
2. Does Lady Hermione have practical knowledge of the world?
3. 
Q8:
1. Does Lady Hermione fear that she might be breaking the law?
2. Does Lady Hermione have any fears that she may have broken the law?
3. 
Q9:
1. Margaret grabs which part of Lady Hermione's body?
2. What body part of Lady Hermione is grabbed by Margaret?
3. 
Q10:
1. Who is Lady Hermione to Margaret?
2. What is Margaret to Lady Hermione?
3. 
Q11:
1. What is the job of Roberts?
2. What is Roberts' profession?
3. 
