"Are you frightened?
No! not in the least frightened! Wonderful!" She turned to the servant.

"Wait in the library; I may want you again." She looked at Julian.

"Leave it all to me; I can manage it." She made a sign to Horace.

"Stay where you are, and hold your tongue." Having now said all that was necessary to every one else, she advanced to the part of the room in which Grace was standing, with lowering brows and firmly shut lips, defiant of everybody.
"I have no desire to offend you, or to act harshly toward you," her ladyship began, very quietly.

"I only suggest that your visits to my house cannot possibly lead to any satisfactory result.