She told Frank that Mr.
Pendril had been expected at three o'clock, and sent him back with her thanks.
Shortly after his departure, such anxieties on Magdalen's account as her mind was now able to feel were relieved by better news than her last night's experience had inclined her to hope for.

Norah's influence had been exerted to rouse her sister; and Norah's patient sympathy had set the prisoned grief free.

Magdalen had suffered severely--suffered inevitably, with such a nature as hers--in the effort that relieved her.
The healing tears had not come gently; they had burst from her with a torturing, passionate vehemence--but Norah had never left her till the struggle was over, and the calm had come.

These better tidings encouraged Miss Garth to withdraw to her own room, and to take the rest which she needed sorely.

Worn out in body and mind, she slept from sheer exhaustion--slept heavily and dreamless for some hours.