I want--oh, how I want--" She stopped and then she added vaguely: "Something else," and her voice trailed away into silence.

She sat without a word, all tingling impatience, during the rest of that drive and continued so to sit after the carriage had stopped.

When Jane Repton descended, and she woke up with a start and looked at the house, it was as though she brought her eyes down from heaven to earth.

Once within the house she went straight up to Repton.

He had left his wife behind with Stella at the Law Courts and had come home in advance of them.