Even if Roger were agreeable, I should not allow it while you are in my charge.

Neither is it exactly complimentary to us that you should even suggest such a thing." With this parting comment she quitted the room, leaving Nan staring stonily out of the window.
She felt helpless--helpless to withstand the thin, steel-eyed woman who was Roger's mother.

Nominally free, she was to all intents and purposes a prisoner at Trenby Hall till Kitty or Penelope came home.

Of course she could write to Lord St.John if she chose.

But even if she did, he most certainly could not ask her to stay with him at his chambers in London.