Mr.
Lorimer had satisfied both his sense of duty and his malice.
She heard him speak in cold, cutting tones.

"I have punished you more severely than I had ever expected to find necessary, and I hope that the lesson will be sufficient.

But I warn you, Grace, most solemnly that I shall watch your behaviour very closely for the future, and if I detect in you the smallest indication of the insolence and defiance for which I have inflicted this punishment upon you to-day I shall repeat the punishment fourfold.

No! Not another word!" as Gracie made some inarticulate utterance.

"Or you will compel me to repeat it to-night!" And with that, he walked quietly to the door and unlocked it.
Avery had ceased to beat upon it; she met him white and stiff in the doorway.
"I have just sent for the doctor," she said.