It was then a long time before Mrs.Conway recovered sufficiently from her emotion to take up the letter again.

She did so with an air almost of indifference.

She had learned the news, and doubtless all this long epistle contained many details of comparatively little interest.

But as she read her air of languid grief gave way to an expression of keen interest, and she skimmed through the last page or two with anxious haste.

Then she reread it more slowly and carefully, and then throwing it on the table stood up and walked up and down the little room.
So these women, who had as she believed ruined her life and Herbert's, were now going to attack her son and rob him of his rights.