By nine o'clock she was once more under the villa-roof.

Miss Manisty received her with lamentations and enquiries, that the tottering Lucy was too weary even to hear aright.

Amid what seemed to her a babel of tongues and lights and kind concern, she was taken to bed and sleep.
Mrs.Burgoyne did not attend her.

She waited in Manisty's library, and when Manisty entered the room she came forward-- 'Edward, I have some disagreeable news'-- He stopped abruptly.
'Your sister Alice will be here to-morrow.' 'My sister--Alice ?'--he repeated incredulously.
'She telegraphed this morning that she must see you.

Aunt Pattie consulted me.