The danger of exposure from the coming of these three women to Elliot was probably past.

But Jane Field lay awake all night.

Suddenly at dawn she formed a plan; her mind was settled.
There was seemingly no struggle.

It was to her as if she turned a corner, once turned there was no other way, and no question about it.
When it was time, she got up, dressed herself, and went about the house, as usual.

There was no difference in her look or manner, but all the morning Lois kept glancing at her in a startled, half-involuntary way; then she would look away again, seeing nothing to warrant it, but ere long her eyes turned again toward her mother's face.