Mrs.Costello sat there alone, and two letters lay on the table.
"Here is a note for you," she said, as Lucia came in.

"Mr.Percy brought it." "He has been here, then ?" and she took up the note, not much caring to open it when she saw Bella's writing.
"Yes.

He came very soon after you were gone.

He said he was coming to say good-bye, and Bella asked him to bring that." "To say good-bye ?" Lucia felt the colour fade out of her cheeks.

She held the note in a tight grasp to keep her hand from trembling, and sat down.
"He and Mr.Bellairs are going up the Lakes.