Lady Carey frowned.
"It must be the truth, remember, Marie." "Certainly, my lady! She took her small dressing-case." Lady Carey set her teeth hard.

Then with a movement of her head she dismissed the maid.

She walked restlessly up and down the room.

Then she stopped short with a hard little laugh.
"If I give way like this," she murmured, "I shall be positively hideous, and after all, if she was there it was not possible for him--" She stopped short, and suddenly tearing the handkerchief which she had been carrying into shreds threw the pieces upon the floor, and stamped upon them.

Then she laughed shortly, and turned towards the door.
"Now I must go and get rid of that poor fool outside," she said.