In about ten minutes the carriage came back, but without the lady.

This time the driver got down, shut the gate after him, and drove rapidly away.
If blazing eyes could crack glass, the spectacles of the old lady would have been splintered into many pieces as she stood by the roadside, the end of her umbrella jabbed an inch or two into the ground.

After standing thus for some five minutes, she suddenly turned and walked vigorously away in the direction from which she had come.
Uncle Isham, Letty, and the boy Plez, were very much surprised at the arrival of the lady in the carriage.

She had asked for the mistress of the house, and on being assured that she was expected to return very soon, had alighted, paid and dismissed her driver, and had taken a seat in the parlor.

Her valise, rather larger than that of the previous visitor, was brought in and put in the hall.