She would tell Kate as soon as the thing was done, but not before.

That Kate would sympathize with her, she was quite certain.
So the two days passed by and the time came at which John Grey was to be there.

As the minute hand on the drawing-room clock came round to the full hour, she felt that her heart was beating with a violence which she could not repress.

The thing seemed to her to assume bigger dimensions than it had hitherto done.

She began to be aware that she was about to be guilty of a great iniquity, when it was too late for her to change her mind.