"If I can't go to him, why don't you bring him here to me ?" The doctor appeared to be at a loss how to reply to me.

He looked at Benjamin, and said, "Will you speak to Mrs.Woodville ?" Benjamin, in his turn, looked at Major Fitz-David, and said, "Will _you ?_" The Major signed to them both to leave us.

They rose together, and went into the front room, pulling the door to after them in its grooves.

As they left us, the girl who had so strangely revealed my husband's secret to me rose in her corner and approached the sofa.
"I suppose I had better go too ?" she said, addressing Major Fitz-David.
"If you please," the Major answered.
He spoke (as I thought) rather coldly.

She tossed her head, and turned her back on him in high indignation.