"Did you tell me that you left Ambrose and Silas together ?" "Yes." "Suppose Silas tells Ambrose of what happened this morning ?" The same idea, as I have already mentioned, had occurred to my mind.

I did my best to reassure Naomi.
"Mr.Jago is out of the way," I replied.

"You and I can easily put things right in his absence." She took my arm.
"Come in to prayers," she said.

"Ambrose will be there, and I shall find an opportunity of speaking to him." Neither Ambrose nor Silas was in the breakfast-room when we entered it.
After waiting vainly for ten minutes, Mr.Meadowcroft told his daughter to read the prayers.

Miss Meadowcroft read, thereupon, in the tone of an injured woman taking the throne of mercy by storm, and insisting on her rights.