And now, Harriet Corvey, if you've got to make up the mail to go away early in the morning, you'd better have supper over and get about it." Meanwhile, at Mrs Keswick's house Mrs Null was acting just as conscientiously as she knew how.

She had had some conversations with Freddy on the subject, and she had assured him, and at the same time herself, that what she was doing was the only thing that could be done.
"It was dreadfully hard for me to get the money to come down here," she said to him,--"you not helping me a bit, as ordinary husbands do--and I can't afford to go back until I have accomplished something.

It's very strange that she stays away so long, without telling anybody where she has gone to, but I know she is queer, and I suppose she has her own reasons for what she does.

She can't be staying away on my account, for she doesn't know who I am, and wouldn't have any objections to me if she did know.

I suspect it is something about Junius which keeps her away, and I suppose she thinks he is still here.