She was too wise to speak to him before them.

But at last she succeeded in making an opportunity of being alone with her husband.

'You stay here, nurse; I'll be back directly, mamma,' and then she took him across the passage into his own dressing-room.

'Who are they, John?
who are they ?' 'They are men from the mines.

As they were my partners, I have asked them to come in to breakfast.' 'And the woman ?' As she spoke she held on to the back of a chair by which she stood, and only whispered her question.
'No woman is with them.' 'Is it the man,--Crinkett ?' 'Yes, it is Crinkett.' 'In this house! And I am to sit at table with him ?' 'It will be best so.