Nurse Baker did not move her head, but continued watching her patient, with hands ready to act.
"Come in," she said, not looking round.
Lady Ashbridge's face was towards the door.

As Sir James entered, she suddenly sprang up, and in her right hand that lay beside her was a knife, which she had no doubt taken from the tea-table when she came upstairs.

She turned swiftly towards Michael, and stabbed at him with it.
"It's a trap," she cried.

"You've led me into a trap.

They are going to take me away." Michael had thrown up his arm to shield his head.