[The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Moonstone CHAPTER V 23/24
His ruddy colour was all gone. He said, "Please to come down-stairs, Miss! My lady has fainted, and we can't bring her to again." In a moment more I was alone, and free to go down-stairs in my turn, quite unobserved. Mr.Godfrey passed me in the hall, hurrying out, to fetch the doctor. "Go in, and help them!" he said, pointing to the room.
I found Rachel on her knees by the sofa, with her mother's head on her bosom.
One look at my aunt's face (knowing what I knew) was enough to warn me of the dreadful truth.
I kept my thoughts to myself till the doctor came in. It was not long before he arrived.
He began by sending Rachel out of the room--and then he told the rest of us that Lady Verinder was no more. Serious persons, in search of proofs of hardened scepticism, may be interested in hearing that he showed no signs of remorse when he looked at Me. At a later hour I peeped into the breakfast-room, and the library.
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