I fancy things are coming to a crisis here.

If my lord's suspicions are once awakened, the consequences will be terrible.

Under certain provocations, the noble Montbarry is a man who would stick at nothing.

However, the pay is good--and I can't afford to talk of leaving the place, like my lady's maid.' Agnes handed back the letters--so suggestive of the penalty paid already for his own infatuation by the man who had deserted her!--with feelings of shame and distress, which made her no fit counsellor for the helpless woman who depended on her advice.
'The one thing I can suggest,' she said, after first speaking some kind words of comfort and hope, 'is that we should consult a person of greater experience than ours.

Suppose I write and ask my lawyer (who is also my friend and trustee) to come and advise us to-morrow after his business hours ?' Emily eagerly and gratefully accepted the suggestion.