THE REAPPEARANCE OF HANDYSIDE Consternation reigned for a while at the entrance to the Royal Devonshire.

Men craned their necks and women uttered nervous little shrieks.

But Evelyn Forbes was endowed with a vigorous frame and a splendidly vital spirit, and she recovered her senses before she could be carried into the vestibule.
The fact that she had fainted, too, brought to the aid of her waking senses the innate horror of her race and class for anything approaching a "scene," and she was almost unnaturally collected in speech and demeanor within a few seconds after her eyes had reopened.
"Did I give way like that ?" she said, with a valiant smile, first at Theydon, and then at the ring of faces, each with its varying expression of curiosity or concern.

"How stupid of me! How excessively stupid! That sort of behavior doesn't help at all--does it ?...

Thank you, I can walk quite well....