If her niece was the lucky winner of the Scholarship all would undoubtedly go well with Mrs. Aylmer.  She would be the aunt, practically the adopted mother, of the heroine, the girl on whom all eyes were fixed, Sir John's special _protégée_, the Cherry Court School Scholarship girl.  She could talk about Florence and her great abilities from time to time, and gently insinuate little hints with regard to the girl's unfortunate position and her great kindness in adopting her.  Thus people would think her a most good-natured woman as well as a very rich one, the aunt of a girl of undoubted genius--yes, a great deal might follow in the train of such consequences.