Some of the other pieces are ready, but you need not wait.

I cannot stop now, even to do them up properly, but I will bring the mantilla myself to-morrow.

Please say so to Mr.Mangan." The extreme lassitude of her manner only added to Martha's anxiety and, as the afternoon wore on, she watched Lady Barbara's every move with ever-increasing alarm.

Now and then her poor mistress would drop her needle, turn her face to the window, and look out into vacancy, her mouth quivering as if with some inward thought which she had neither the will nor the desire to voice aloud.
As the hours lengthened, this mental absorption and growing physical weariness were followed by a certain nervous tension, so pronounced that the nurse, accustomed to various forms of feminine breakdowns, had already determined what remedies to use should the symptoms increase.
That Stephen's visit was responsible for this condition, she now no longer doubted.

What she had intended as a relief had only complicated the situation.