He must be buried from his own house.

I sent a second messenger to Ambleside for the undertaker.

He will be here very soon, no doubt, and if the shell is ready by noon to-morrow, the body can be removed then.

I have arranged to get her ladyship away to-night.' 'So late?
After midnight ?' 'Why not?
She cannot stay in this small house--so near the dead.

There is a moon, and there is no snow falling, and we are within seven miles of Fellside.' The doctor had nothing further to say against the arrangement, although such a drive seemed to him a somewhat wild and reckless proceeding.