Yet Miss Alice would take it.

On coming to her room after her interview with her brother, she had fallen first into a long fit of weeping, and then, after much restless pacing to and fro, she had put her hands to her head in a kind of despair, and had bidden Dalgetty give her the new medicine.

'I must lie down and sleep--_sleep!_'-- she had said, 'or--' And then she had paused, looking at Dalgetty with an aspect so piteous and wild that the maid's heart had quaked within her.

Nevertheless she had tried to keep the new medicine away from her mistress.

But Miss Alice had shown such uncontrollable anger on being crossed, that there was nothing for it but to yield.