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The shock of Cara's desertion prostrated her mother, and for many days she remained at the Paradis, blanched and shaken, a stricken, ghost-like guest. Her friend (now completely restored) had taken the helm of her life in her hands, and was making rapid preparations for their departure to England.
"My poor dear child," she said, "I am desperately sorry for you. That your wound is deep, I know. ‘How sharper than the serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child,' so said old King Lear; all the same, you will get over it."