This is not only the earnest request--it is, if necessary, the positive command, of your mother and friend, "JANET ROY.
"P.S .-- I shall find opportunities (before you leave your room) of speaking separately to my nephew and to Horace Holmcroft.

You need dread no embarrassment, when you next meet them.

I will not ask you to answer my note in writing.

Say yes to the maid who will bring it to you, and I shall know we understand each other." After sealing the envelope which inclosed these lines, Lady Janet addressed it, as usual, to "Miss Grace Roseberry." She was just rising to ring the bell, when the maid appeared with a message from the boudoir.

The woman's tones and looks showed plainly that she had been made the object of Grace's insolent self-assertion as well as her mistress.
"If you please, my lady, the person downstairs wishes--" Lady Janet, frowning contemptuously, interrupted the message at the outset.