"I have a cab"---- "Stop, Mr.Quarrier .-- I haven't told you the worst.

She ran from the house just as she was, without her hat"---- "What do you mean?
Why should she---- ?" "She was in a dreadful state.

I had done my best to soothe her.

I was just going to send for you.

My servant saw her run out from the sitting-room into the garden, and the gate wasn't opened--she must have gone the back way--into the fields." "Into the fields---- ?" He stared at her with a look of gathering horror, and his tongue failed him.
"I followed that way.