"Huncommon urgent your business must be to take you from 'ome such a hevening as this.

'Ow's my lady ?" "My lady is not at all well, Mr.Edwards," answered Sybilla.

"Sir Everard was obliged to go alone to his mother's, my lady's headache is so intense.

Claudine is with her, I believe.

We are going to have a storm, are we not?
I shall be obliged to hurry back." She flitted away as she spoke, drawing down her veil, and disappearing while yet Mr.Edwards was trying to make a languid proffer of his services as escort.