Before I could knock at her door she came out into the corridor with that morsel of paper in her hand--" "So as to keep you from entering her room ?" "Yes, miss.

Her ladyship wrote on the paper in a great hurry, and told me to pin it round the letter that I had left in your room.

I was to take them both together to you, and to let nobody see me.

'You will find Miss Roseberry in the library' (her ladyship says), 'and run, run, run! there isn't a moment to lose!' Those were her own words, miss." "Did you hear anything in the room before Lady Janet came out and met you ?" The woman hesitated, and looked at Julian.
"I hardly know whether I ought to tell you, miss." Julian turned away to leave the library.

Mercy stopped him by a motion of her hand.
"You know that I shall not get you into any trouble," she said to the maid.