"I will begin to take valerian, though it is really very nasty." Jane herself had a somewhat harried expression of countenance.

She did not mention to her mistress that for some days she had been faithfully following a line of conduct she had begun to mark out for herself.

She had obtained a pair of list slippers and had been learning to go about softly.

She had sat up late and risen from her bed early, though she had not been rewarded by any particularly marked discoveries.

She had thought, however, that she observed that Ameerah did not look at her as much as had been her habit, and she imagined she rather avoided her.