Good night." Then she left him, and went up alone to her own room.

Whether or no other guests were still left in the drawing-room she did not know; but she had seen that Mr Palliser took his wife up-stairs, and therefore she considered herself right in presuming that the party was broken up for the night.

Mr Palliser,--Plantagenet Palliser, according to all rules of courtesy should have said a word to her as he went; but, as I have said before, Alice was disposed to overlook his want of civility on this occasion.

So she went up alone to her room, and was very glad to find herself able to get close to a good fire.

She was, in truth, very cold--cold to her bones, in spite of what Lady Glencora had said on behalf of the moonlight.