If you want to consult me at any time about anything, I promise you I will come without a moment's delay, at any hour of the day or night.

There is my private address," he scribbled in his pocket-book as he spoke, "and under it the address of my club, where I am generally to be found in the evening." He tore out the paper and handed it to her.

She thanked him.

He shook hands with her and with me and withdrew.
As soon as the hall door was shut on him, Mrs.Grant tapped at the door and came in.

There was such a look of distress in her face that Miss Trelawny stood up, deadly white, and asked her: "What is it, Mrs.Grant?
What is it?
Any new trouble ?" "I grieve to say, miss, that the servants, all but two, have given notice and want to leave the house today.