Send for him." "I wrote a letter yesterday," was Lady Walderhurst's meek rejoinder.

"I got nervous." "So did I get nervous," said Hester; "so did I." That she was disturbed Emily could see.

The little laugh she ended her words with had an excited ring in it.
During the Osborns' stay at Palstrey the two women had naturally seen a good deal of each other, but for the next two days they were scarcely separated at all.

Emily, feeling merely cheered and supported by the fact that Hester made herself so excellent a companion, was not aware of two or three things.

One was that Mrs.Osborn did not lose sight of her unless at such times as she was in the hands of Jane Cupp.
"I may as well make a clean breast of it," the young woman said.