They dropped--the trees shrouded him in darkness--he was gone.
Miss Garth went back to the suffering woman, with the burden on her mind of one anxiety more.
It was then past eleven o'clock.

Some little time had elapsed since she had seen the sisters and spoken to them.

The inquiries she addressed to one of the female servants only elicited the information that they were both in their rooms.

She delayed her return to the mother's bedside to say her parting words of comfort to the daughters, before she left them for the night.

Norah's room was the nearest.