The doctor's wife did justice to the doctor at last.

Another person had, in all probability, heard Lord Harry's voice--and that person might have been her husband.
Was it possible that he remembered the service which she had asked of him; and, even if he had succeeded in calling it to mind, was his discretion to be trusted?
As those questions occurred to her, the desire to obtain some positive information was more than she was able to resist.

Mrs.Vimpany attempted to leave the drawing-room for the second time.
But the same motive had already urged Miss Henley to action.

Again, the younger woman outstripped the older.

Iris descended the stairs, resolved to discover the cause of the sudden suspension of events in the lower part of the house..