It was as though another entity that was in her and yet not herself had taken possession of her and made her act as uninfluenced, she never would have acted.

Thus she pondered in her calm fashion, then, being able to make nothing of the business, shrugged her shoulders and let it go by.

After all it mattered nothing since Godfrey had dreamed that the ghost of his mother had visited him and would not suspect her of being that ghost, and she was certain that never would she do such a thing again.

The trouble was that she had done it once and that the deed signified some change in her which her childish mind could not understand.
On reaching the Hall, or rather shortly afterwards, she saw her father who was waiting for the carriage in which to go to the station to meet some particularly important week-end guest.

He asked if she had brought any answer to his note to Mr.Knight, and she told him that she had left it in the schoolroom, as she called the refectory, because he was out.
"I hope he will get it," grumbled Mr.Blake.