She just said that she wanted to see you, and that it was urgent.

She's not got very long; she wants to catch the six o'clock train from Telford.

She wouldn't believe at first that you wasn't in." Enid found some comfort in those words, and she made up her mind that she would linger upstairs as long as she possibly could, so as to cut short her coming interview with the tiresome young woman.

After all there was very little to say.

She had behaved in a kind and generous manner to her late husband's servant, and she had already said she would do her best to help him again.
When she got upstairs she lit the two high brass candlesticks on the dressing-table, and then, after she had taken off her hat and long black woollen coat, she sat down in her easy-chair by the wood fire.