All she said to Lady Walderhurst was: "Yes, my lady, mother thinks a great deal of valerian to quiet the nerves.

Will you have a light left in your room to-night, my lady ?" "I am afraid I could not sleep with a light," her mistress answered.

"I am not used to one." She continued to sleep, disturbedly some nights, in the dark.

She was not aware that on some of the nights Jane Cupp either slept or laid awake in the room nearest to her.

Jane's own bedroom was in another part of the house, but in her quiet goings about in the list shoes she now and then saw things which made her nervously determined to be within immediate call.
"I don't say it isn't nerves, mother," she said, "and that I ain't silly to feel so suspicious of all sorts of little things, but there's nights when I couldn't stand it not to be quite near her.".