(No more of the doctor--I have had enough of him!) Where is she--_your_ pitiable lady, _my_ crazy wretch--where is she now?
Still in London ?" "Yes." "And still at large ?" "Still with the landlady, at her lodgings." "Very well.

Now answer me this! What is to prevent her from making another attempt to force her way (or steal her way) into my house?
How am I to protect Grace, how am I to protect myself, if she comes here again ?" "Is that really what you wished to speak to me about ?" "That, and nothing else." They were both too deeply interested in the subject of their conversation to look toward the conservatory, and to notice the appearance at that moment of a distant gentleman among the plants and flowers, who had made his way in from the garden outside.

Advancing noiselessly on the soft Indian matting, the gentleman ere long revealed himself under the form and features of Horace Holmcroft.

Before entering the dining-room he paused, fixing his eyes inquisitively on the back of Lady Janet's visitor--the back being all that he could see in the position he then occupied.

After a pause of an instant the visitor spoke, and further uncertainty was at once at an end.