The sullen, unmanageable Norah was locked in.
Under other circumstances, Magdalen would not have been satisfied with knocking--she would have called through the door loudly and more loudly, till the house was disturbed and she had carried her point.

But the doubts and fears of the morning had unnerved her already.

She went downstairs again softly, and took her hat from the stand in the hall.
"He told me to put my hat on," she said to herself, with a meek filial docility which was totally out of her character.
She went into the garden, on the shrubbery side; and waited there to catch the first sight of her father on his return.

Half an hour passed; forty minutes passed--and then his voice reached her from among the distant trees.

"Come in to heel!" she heard him call out loudly to the dog.