What was the name of that lady I met here, whose children you used to teach ?' 'Mrs.Langland.

She is very kind and friendly, but she lives at Gunnersbury--so far--and I couldn't trouble her.' Upon one meeting and a short conversation, with subsequent remarks from Edgar Abbott, Rolfe had grounded a very favourable opinion of Mrs Langland.

She dwelt clearly in his mind as 'a woman with no nonsense about her', likely to be of much helpfulness at a crisis such as the present.

With difficulty he persuaded Mrs.Abbott to sit down and write a few lines, to be posted at once to Gunnersbury.
'I haven't dared to ask her to come.

But I have said that I am alone.' 'Quite enough, I think, if she is at home.' He took his leave, and drove back to Bayswater, posting the letter and despatching two telegrams on the way.
Of course, his visit to Greystone was given up..