They were not fully dressed for the evening and were of course inclined to be silent and sad.

Before Lord Rufford came in Arabella managed to get herself on to the sofa next to Lady Penwether, and then to undergo some little hysterical manifestation, "Oh Lady Penwether; if you had seen it;--and heard it!" "I am very glad that I was spared anything so horrible." "And the man's face as he passed me going to the leap! It will haunt me to my dying day!" Then she shivered, and gurgled in her throat, and turning suddenly round, hid her face on the elbow of the couch.
"I've been afraid all the afternoon that she would be ill," whispered Lady Augustus to Miss Penge.

"She is so susceptible!" When Lord Rufford came into the room Arabella at once got up and accosted him with a whisper.

Either he took her or she took him into a distant part of the room where they conversed apart for five minutes.

And he, as he told her how things were going and what was being done, bent over her and whispered also.