She will have a staff of servants here.

You can please yourself about remaining--either as housekeeper or not--just as you like." "Of course, my lord, I shall be only too thankful to remain, but it seems so very strange--" Lord Arleigh held up his hand.
"Hush!" he said.

"A well-trained servant finds nothing strange." The woman took the hint and retired.

Lord Arleigh turned to say farewell to his wife.

He found her standing, white and tearless, by the window.
"Oh, my darling," he cried, "we must now part! Yet how can I leave you--so sad, so silent, so despairing?
Speak to me, my own love--one word--just one word." Her woman's heart, so quick to pity, was touched by his prayer.