It serves me right; my instinct warned me against the fellow from the first." Just then luncheon was announced.

Gertrude did not come down.

Agatha was silent and moody.

Jane tried to make Erskine describe his walk with Gertrude, but he baffled her curiosity by omitting from his account everything except its commonplaces.
"I think her conduct very strange," said Jane.

"She insists on going to town by the four o'clock train.