All I knew was that the lawyer had arrived from London to help her.

Toward the evening he was admitted to see me.

He shook his head sorrowfully when I asked after my mistress.
"I am afraid," he said, "that she has sunk under the horror of the situation in which that vile woman has placed her.

Weakened by her previous agitation, she seems to have given way under this last shock, tenderly and carefully as Mr.Philip Nicholson broke the bad news to her.

All her feelings appeared to be strangely blunted at the examination to-day.