There is a party here on Thursday, and I want to show the bust complete, if you don't mind." Henry said he would finish it for her.

He accordingly set to work, and waited quietly till Jael should leave the room, to have it out with Grace.
She, for her part, seemed to have forgotten his strange manner to her the other day; perhaps she chose to forget it, or overlook it.

But Henry observed that Jael was not allowed to quit the room.

Whatever Miss Carden wanted she fetched herself, and came back softly, and rather suddenly, as if she had a mind to surprise Jeel and the other too.
Female subtlety was clearly at work.
"What do you advise me ?" said Henry to Jael, during one of these intervals.
Jael never lifted her eyes from her work, and spoke under her breath, "I think I'd be patient to-day.

She must give you a chance to speak some day.