Lilla was utterly unable to do anything to escape from the ordeal before her; but her cousin, with the experience of her former struggles with Mr.Caswall and of the condition in which these left her, would have taken steps--even peremptory ones, if necessary--to prevent a repetition.
Edgar arrived punctually to the time appointed by herself.

When Lilla, through the great window, saw him approaching the house, her condition of nervous upset was pitiable.

She braced herself up, however, and managed to get through the interview in its preliminary stages without any perceptible change in her normal appearance and bearing.

It had been to her an added terror that the black shadow of Oolanga, whom she dreaded, would follow hard on his master.

A load was lifted from her mind when he did not make his usual stealthy approach.