"I am here on the part of mamma--and I nearly met papa in your passage, which terrified me out of my senses.

Mr.Dill shut me into his room." Mr.Carlyle motioned to Barbara to seat herself, then resumed his own seat, beside his table.

Barbara could not help noticing how different his manners were in his office from his evening manners when he was "off duty." Here he was the staid, calm man of business.
"I have a strange thing to tell you," she began, in a whisper, "but--it is impossible that any one can hear us," she broke off, with a look of dread.

"It would be--it might be--death!" "It is quite impossible," calmly replied Mr.Carlyle.

"The doors are double doors; did you notice that they were ?" Nevertheless, she left her chair and stood close to Mr.Carlyle, resting her hand upon the table.