Some step would now be taken to prevent that meeting which she had so deprecated, and it would be taken without any great violation of confidence on her part.

She had said nothing as to which Lady Glencora could feel herself aggrieved.
On the next morning she was down in the breakfast-room soon after nine, and had not been in the room many minutes before Mr Palliser entered.

"The carriage is ordered for you at a quarter before ten," he said, "and I have come down to give you your breakfast." There was a smile on his face as he spoke, and Alice could see that he intended to make himself pleasant.
"Will you allow me to give you yours instead ?" said she.

But as it happened, no giving on either side was needed, as Alice's breakfast was brought to her separately.
"Glencora bids me say that she will be down immediately," said Mr Palliser.
Alice then made some inquiry with reference to the effects of last night's imprudence, which received only a half-pronounced reply.
Mr Palliser was willing to be gracious, but did not intend to be understood as having forgiven the offence.

The Miss Pallisers then came in together, and after them Mr Bott, closely followed by Mrs Marsham, and all of them made inquiries after Lady Glencora, as though it was to be supposed that she might probably be in a perilous state after what she had undergone on the previous evening.