But it cleared at once;--she stood up, saying in a tone in which dignity and graciousness were blended: "Come and see for yourself!" She moved toward her father's room; he followed, and I brought up the rear.
Mr.Corbeck entered the sick-room as though he knew it.

There is an unconscious attitude or bearing to persons in new surroundings which there is no mistaking.

Even in his anxiety to see his powerful friend, he glanced for a moment round the room, as at a familiar place.

Then all his attention became fixed on the bed.

I watched him narrowly, for somehow I felt that on this man depended much of our enlightenment regarding the strange matter in which we were involved.
It was not that I doubted him.