And I shall have a service to ask of you afterwards, if you don't object to assist me." It is again needless to say that, so far from objecting, I was all eagerness to assist her.
"You can wait here," she went on, "till Mr.Bruff comes at five.

And you can be one of the witnesses, Drusilla, when I sign my Will." Her Will! I thought of the drops which I had seen in her work-box.

I thought of the bluish tinge which I had noticed in her complexion.

A light which was not of this world--a light shining prophetically from an unmade grave--dawned on my mind.

My aunt's secret was a secret no longer..