It is your home and Ughtred's----" "It is Nigel's," put in Rosy.
"It is entailed, isn't it ?" turning quickly.

"He cannot sell it ?" "If he could we should not be sitting here," ruefully.
"Then he cannot object to its being rescued from ruin." "He will object to--to money being spent on things he does not care for." Lady Anstruthers' voice lowered itself, as it always did when she spoke of her husband, and she indulged in the involuntary hasty glance about her.
"I am going to my room to take off my hat," Betty said.

"Will you come with me ?" She went into the house, talking quietly of ordinary things, and in this way they mounted the stairway together and passed along the gallery which led to her room.

When they entered it she closed the door, locked it, and, taking off her hat, laid it aside.

After doing which she sat.
"No one can hear and no one can come in," she said.