I listened at the door sometimes, before you came in.
She seems quite reconciled to him.' 'All the same, I wish this night were over and the doctor here!' said Eleanor, and Miss Manisty, lifting her hands, assented with all the energy her small person could throw into the gesture.
* * * * * Lucy, in the course of dressing for dinner, decided that to sit through a meal was beyond her powers, and that she would be least in the way if she went to bed.

So she sent a message to Miss Manisty, and was soon lying at ease, with the window opposite her bed opened wide to Monte Cavo and the moonlit lake.

The window on her left hand, which looked on the balcony, she herself had closed and fastened with all possible care.

And she had satisfied herself that her key was in her door.

As soon as Miss Manisty and Eleanor had paid her their good-night visit, she meant to secure herself.
And presently Aunt Pattie came in, to see that she had her soup and had taken her quinine.