I can't stand it--a home must be found for her elsewhere." And soon after that, Halcyone had come with her own Priscilla to La Sarthe Chase to her great-aunts Ginevra and Roberta, in their tumble-down mansion which her father had not lived to inherit.

Under family arrangements, it was the two old ladies' property for their lives.
And now the problem of what James Anderton--or rather the second Mrs.
James Anderton--would do was the question of the moment.

Would there be a fresh governess or would they all be left in peace without one?
Mrs.
James Anderton, Miss Roberta had said once, was a person who "did her duty," as people often did "in her class"-- "a most worthy woman, if not quite a lady"-- and she had striven to do her best by James Anderton's children--even his stepchild Halcyone.
Miss La Sarthe promised to write that night before she went to bed--but Halcyone knew it was a long process with her and that an answer could not be expected for at least a week.

Therefore there was no good agitating herself too soon about the result.

It was one of her principles never to worry over unnecessary things.