The children were following slyly in her wake, but their mother caught sight of them and pulled them back.
Mr.Tuxbury had been sitting in the parlor with his guests, trying his best to entertain them.

He had gotten out the photograph album for Lois, and a book of views in the Holy Land for her mother.

If he had felt in considerable haste to escape from his sister's indignation and return to his visitors, they had been equally anxious for him to come.
When Mrs.Field and her daughter were left alone in the office, their first sensation was that of actual terror of each other.
Mrs.Field concealed hers well enough.

She sat up without a tremor in her unbending back, and looked out of the office door, which the lawyer had left open.

Just opposite the door, out on the sidewalk, two men stood talking.