They were going into Cornwall, and on the return journey would manage to see Miss Madden at her Somerset retreat.

For the present, Virginia was to live on at Mrs.Conisbee's, but not in the old way; henceforth she would have proper attendance, and modify her vegetarian diet--at the express bidding of the doctor, as she explained to her landlady.
Though that very evening Everard Barfoot made a call upon his friends in Chelsea, the first since Rhoda's return from Cheddar, he heard nothing of the event that marked the day.

But Miss Nunn appeared to him unlike herself; she was absent, had little to say, and looked, what he had never yet known her, oppressed by low spirits.

For some reason or other Miss Barfoot left the room.
'You are thinking with regret of your old home,' Everard remarked, taking a seat nearer to Miss Nunn.' 'No.

Why should you fancy that ?' 'Only because you seem rather sad.' 'One is sometimes.' 'I like to see you with that look.