The movement was a natural one.

Certainly she was excusable for wishing to hide from the girl the full extent of the agitation into which this misadventure had thrown her.
"You may go." The words came after a moment of silent suspense.

"Give the baby her supper--I know that you will never let any one else come so near her again." Letty probably did not catch the secret anguish hidden in her tone, but I did, and after the nurse-maid was gone, I waited anxiously for what Mrs.Packard would say.
It came from the window and conveyed nothing.

Would I do so and so?
I forget what her requests were, only that they necessitated my leaving the room.

There seemed no alternative but to obey, yet I felt loath to leave her and was hesitating near the doorway when a new interruption occurred.