She sat unmoved; apparently in no way disposed to interfere.

I had never noticed this kind of torpor in her before.

It was, perhaps, the reaction after the trying time she had had in the country.

Not a pleasant symptom to remark, be it what it might, at dear Lady Verinder's age, and with dear Lady Verinder's autumnal exuberance of figure.
In the meantime, Rachel had settled herself at the window with our amiable and forbearing--our too forbearing--Mr.Godfrey.

She began the string of questions with which she had threatened him, taking no more notice of her mother, or of myself, than if we had not been in the room.
"Have the police done anything, Godfrey ?" "Nothing whatever." "It is certain, I suppose, that the three men who laid the trap for you were the same three men who afterwards laid the trap for Mr.Luker ?" "Humanly speaking, my dear Rachel, there can be no doubt of it." "And not a trace of them has been discovered ?" "Not a trace." "It is thought--is it not ?--that these three men are the three Indians who came to our house in the country." "Some people think so." "Do you think so ?" "My dear Rachel, they blindfolded me before I could see their faces.