Had she so seen it she would certainly have called to the man from the window when he was standing in the road.

But the door of that front room was locked against her; and when she tried the other she found that all the front rooms were locked.

She knew the house, of course, as well as did her mother, and she rushed up to the attics where the servants occupied the rooms looking out to the road.

But they, too, were locked against her.

Then it flashed upon her that the attempt to make her a prisoner was to be carried out through every possible detail.
What should she do?
Her husband would come of course; but what if he were unable to force an entrance?
And how could he force it?
Would the police help him?
Would the magistrates help him?
She knew that the law was on her side, and on his,--that the law would declare him to be her lord and owner till the law should have separated them.