Her aunt's silent and sinister entrance had frightened her.
Benjulia waited, in the interests of physiology, to see how the new nervous excitement would end.
Thus far, Mrs.Gallilee had kept one of her hands hidden behind her.

She advanced close to Carmina, and allowed her hand to be seen.

It held an open letter.

She shook the letter in her niece's face.
In the position which Mrs.Gallilee now occupied, Carmina was hidden, for the moment, from Benjulia's view.

Biding his time at the window, he looked out.
A cab, with luggage on it, had just drawn up at the house.
Was this the old nurse who had been expected to arrive at six o'clock?
The footman came out to open the cab-door.