Lady Montbarry vainly complained of this separation of one of the members of her travelling party from the rest.

The housekeeper politely hinted that it was impossible for her to ask other travellers to give up their rooms.

She could only express her regret, and assure Miss Lockwood that her bed-chamber on the second floor was one of the best rooms in that part of the hotel.
On the retirement of the housekeeper, Lady Montbarry noticed that Agnes had seated herself apart, feeling apparently no interest in the question of the bedrooms.

Was she ill?
No; she felt a little unnerved by the railway journey, and that was all.

Hearing this, Lord Montbarry proposed that she should go out with him, and try the experiment of half an hour's walk in the cool evening air.