She therefore looked forward with impatience to the Tuesday night.
It arrived.

Antonia listened anxiously to the Carriages, as they rolled along the Street.

None of them stopped, and it grew late without Leonella's appearing.

Still, Antonia resolved to sit up till her Aunt's arrival, and in spite of all her remonstrances, Dame Jacintha and Flora insisted upon doing the same.

The hours passed on slow and tediously.