.

Hostility.
When she was not eating her meals or asleep in her bed, absolute silence on Mrs.Presty's part was a circumstance without precedent in the experience of her daughter.

Mrs.Presty was absolutely silent now.

Mrs.
Linley looked up.
She at once perceived the change in her mother's face and asked what it meant.

"Mamma, you look as if something had frightened you.