Now I must fly to help her ladyship to alight." He hastened to the house door, at which the wagonette had just stopped.
Agatha, bewildered, and ashamed to face her friends, went in through the conservatory, and locked herself in her room.
Trefusis went into the library with Gertrude whilst Lady Brandon loitered in the hall to take off her gloves and ask questions of the servants.

When she followed, she found the two standing together at the window.

Gertrude was listening to him with the patient expression she now often wore when he talked.

He was smiling, but it struck Jane that he was not quite at ease.

"I was just beginning to tell Miss Lindsay," he said, "of an extraordinary thing that has happened during your absence." "I know," exclaimed Jane, with sudden conviction.