This time she was fully dressed, and had her cloak and thick shoes on, as their rattle on the floor plainly discovered.

She had a little bundle tied up in a handkerchief in her hand, and her hood was drawn about her head; and thus equipped, as it seemed, for a journey, she came and stood at the foot of Alice's bed, and stared on her with a look so soulless and terrible that her senses almost forsook her.

Then she turned and went back into her own chamber.
She may have returned; but Alice thought not--at least she did not see her.

But she lay in great excitement and perturbation; and was terrified, about an hour later, by a knock at her chamber door--not that opening into Una's room, but upon the little passage from the stone screw staircase.

She sprang from her bed; but the door was secured on the inside, and she felt relieved.