Alfredo appeared immediately afterwards; and then Manisty was conscious of the flash of a hand-lamp, and the soft, hurrying step of Eleanor Burgoyne.
She stood in horror at the entrance of the glass passage.

Manisty gave his sister into Alfredo's keeping as he rose and went towards her.
'For God's sake'-- he said under his breath--'go and see what has happened to Dalgetty.' He took for granted that Lucy had taken refuge with her, and Eleanor stayed to ask no questions, but fled on to Dalgetty's room.

As she opened the door the fumes of chloroform assailed her, and there on the bed lay the unfortunate maid, just beginning to moan herself back to consciousness from beneath the chloroformed handkerchief that had reduced her to impotence.
Her state demanded every care.

While Manisty and the housemaid Andreina conveyed Alice Manisty, now in a state of helpless exhaustion, to her room, and secured her there, Alfredo ran for the Marinata doctor.

Eleanor and Aunt Pattie forced brandy through the maid's teeth, and did what they could to bring back warmth and circulation.
They were still busy with their task when the elderly Italian arrived who was the communal doctor and chemist of the village.