"Did you ever see such colossal unconcern ?" she whispered, as if the pictured Lloyd could hear.
For a moment she thought she would get up and do the things she had intended doing when she came up stairs, but it required too much of an effort to dress again, and she was more tired than she had realized after her exciting day.

So she lay still.

She began to get drowsy presently, but she could not go to sleep with that irritating light in her eyes.

She threw a counterpane over the foot-board, but it was too low to shield her.

Finally in desperation she slipped out of bed and got her umbrella.