She sat silent.
At this moment there was a stir in the other room; the voice of Mrs.Hilbery was heard talking of proof-sheets rescued by miraculous providence from butcher's ledgers in Australia; the curtain separating one room from the other was drawn apart, and Mrs.Hilbery and Augustus Pelham stood in the doorway.

Mrs.Hilbery stopped short.

She looked at her daughter, and at the man her daughter was to marry, with her peculiar smile that always seemed to tremble on the brink of satire.
"The best of all my treasures, Mr.Pelham!" she exclaimed.

"Don't move, Katharine.

Sit still, William.