"But," she added, "would you kindly see that Mrs.Redmain is told, as soon as she wakes, that I am here ?" "Oblige me by ringing the bell," said Mrs.Perkin.--"Send Mrs.Folter here."' A rather cross-looking, red-faced, thin woman appeared, whom she requested to let her mistress know, as soon as was proper, that there was a young person in the house who said she had come from Testbridge by appointment to see her.
"Yes, ma'am," said Folter, with a supercilious yet familiar nod to Mary; "I'll take care she knows." Mary passed what would have been a dreary morning to one dependent on her company.

It was quite three o'clock when she was at length summoned to Mrs.Redmain's boudoir.

Folter, who was her guide thither, lingered, in the soft closing of the door, long enough to learn that her mistress received the young person with a kiss--almost as much to Mary's surprise as Folter's annoyance, which annoyance partly to relieve, partly to pass on to Mrs.Perkin, whose reception of Mary she had learned, Folter hastened to report the fact, and succeeded thereby in occasioning no small uneasiness in the bosom of the housekeeper, who was almost as much afraid of her mistress as the other servants were of herself.

Some time she spent in expectant trepidation, but gradually, as nothing came of it, calmed her fears, and concluded that her behavior to Mary had been quite correct, seeing the girl had made it no ground of complaint.
But, although Hesper, being at the moment in tolerable spirits, in reaction from her depression of the day before, received Mary with a kiss, she did not ask her a question about her journey, or as to how she had spent the night.

She was there, and looking all right, and that was enough.