Lady Montbarry surveyed herself in the glass, and wheeled round again, with her cat-like suddenness, to Mrs.Ferrari.
'I look more than half dead already, don't I ?' she said with a grim outburst of irony.

'Give me your arm.' She took Mrs.Ferrari's arm, and left the room.

'You have nothing to fear, so long as you obey,' she whispered, on the way downstairs.

'You leave me at Miss Lockwood's door, and never see me again.' In the hall they were met by the landlady of the hotel.

Lady Montbarry graciously presented her companion.