But he stated such matter-of-course briefly.

'The good ladies are ready to receive our girl.' Her chagrin resolved to a kind of solace of her draggled pride, in the idea, that he who tamed everybody to submission, might well have command of her.
The note, signed D.and V., was shown.
There stood the words.

And last night she had been partly of the opinion of Colney Durance.

She sank down among the unreasoning abject;--not this time with her perfect love of him, but with a resistance and a dubiety under compression.

For she had not quite comprehended why Nesta should go.