I'd have given a good deal to warn Dalgetty, but I dared not risk it.

She had not heard Alice go out by the ante-room, but she told me the other day the smallest sound in her own room woke her.

So I felt tolerably safe, and I went to bed .-- Eleanor! do you think that child saw or knew anything of it ?' 'Lucy Foster?
I noticed nothing.' The name, even on her own lips, struck Eleanor's aching sense like a sound of fate.

It seemed now as if through every conversation she foresaw it--that all talk led up to it.
'She looks unlike herself still, this morning--don't you think ?' said Manisty, in disquiet.
'Very possibly she got some chill at Nemi--some slight poison--which will pass off.' 'Well, now'-- he said, after a pause--'how shall we get through the day?
I shall have another scene with Alice, I suppose.

I don't see how it is to be avoided.