It's just an attack of nervousness, probably,--having so many strangers in the house, all of a sudden.

Now you must go to bed and get to sleep: it's awfully late, and there'll be ever so much going on to-morrow." Grace herself slept little that night.

She could not decide what to make of this adventure.

Nowadays we are provided with a name for the peculiar psychical state which Miriam was undergoing, and with abundant instances and illustrations; but we perhaps know what it is no more than we did twenty-five or thirty years ago.

Grace's first idea had been that Miriam was demented; then she thought she was playing a part; then she did not know what to think; and finally she came to the conclusion that it was best to quietly await further developments.