We got a bath and carried Lucy out as she was and placed her in it.
Whilst we were busy chafing her limbs there was a knock at the hall door.

One of the maids ran off, hurried on some more clothes, and opened it.

Then she returned and whispered to us that there was a gentleman who had come with a message from Mr.Holmwood.

I bade her simply tell him that he must wait, for we could see no one now.

She went away with the message, and, engrossed with our work, I clean forgot all about him.
I never saw in all my experience the Professor work in such deadly earnest.