What do you want, Malcolm ?" The servant to whom this question was addressed answered: "A telegram, ma'am, for the mistress." Mrs.Linley recoiled from the message when the man offered it to her.
Not usually a very demonstrative person, the feeling of alarm which had seized on her only expressed itself in a sudden change of color.

"An accident!" she said faintly.

"An accident on the railway!" Mrs.Presty opened the telegram.
"If you had been the wife of a Cabinet Minister," she said to her daughter, "you would have been too well used to telegrams to let them frighten you.

Mr.Presty (who received his telegrams at his office) was not quite just to the memory of my first husband.

He used to blame Mr.
Norman for letting me see his telegrams.