The mysteriousness of the change in Miss Nelly perturbed him the more.

He looked away from the General when he gave the information about the headache.
"Miss Nelly said, sir," he volunteered, "that she was to be called, unless she was asleep, when you came home to dinner.

Shall I send up Fanny to call her ?" "Not for worlds," said the General.

"I'll go myself.

She mustn't be disturbed, poor child, if she has a headache." He went upstairs softly, pursing out his lips as he went along in troubled thought.