CHAPTER X.Kitty Mentions Her Birthday.
A clever old lady, possessed of the inestimable advantages of worldly experience, must submit nevertheless to the laws of Nature.

Time and Sleep together--powerful agents in the small hours of the morning--had got the better of Mrs.Presty's resolution to keep awake.

Free from discovery, Sydney ascended the stairs.

Free from discovery, Sydney entered her own room.
Half-an-hour later, Linley opened the door of his dressing-room.

His wife was still sleeping.