If Mutimer heard of such a visit--and she had no means of assuring herself that communication between him and those people did not still exist--how would it affect him?
Adela's position would not suffer the risk of ever so slight a difference between herself and her husband.

She had come to fear him, and now there was growing in her a yet graver fear of herself.
The condition of her health favoured remissness and postponement.

An hour of mental agitation left her with headache and a sense of bodily feebleness.

Emma Vine she felt in the end obliged to dismiss from her thoughts; the difficulty concerning Alice she put off from day to day.
The second week of her visit was just ending, and the return to Wanley was in view, when, on entering the drawing-room in the afternoon, she found Hubert Eldon sitting there with Mrs.Westlake.If it had been possible to draw back her foot and escape unnoticed! But she was observed; Hubert had already risen.

Adela fancied that Stella was closely observing her; it was not so in reality, but the persuasion wrung her heart to courage.