You are, please, to leave her alone.

Can I trust you ?' 'Hadn't you better send me into Rome ?' said Lucy, laughing and embarrassed.
'I always intended to do so,' said Manisty shortly.
* * * * * Towards five o'clock, Alice Manisty arrived, accompanied by an elderly maid.

Lucy, before she escaped into the garden, was aware of a very tall woman, possessing a harshly handsome face, black eyes, and a thin long-limbed frame.

These black eyes, uneasily bright, searched the salon, as she entered it, only to fasten, with a kind of grip, in which there was no joy, upon her brother.

Lucy saw her kiss him with a cold perfunctoriness, bowed herself, as her name was nervously pronounced by Miss Manisty, and then withdrew.