Had Miss Morrison come to press for it?
It was within a fortnight of twelve months since the loan was granted.

She felt a vague terror.
The visitor just touched her hand, then looked at her with an expression which stirred increasing alarm in the woman before her.

It was so hard and cold; it threatened, without speech.
'I came to return you something I don't want any more,' said the girl, with a defiant air; and Phoebe noticed, as she spoke, that she carried in her left hand a large, paper-covered roll.

In her deep black she was more startling than ever, with spots of flame-colour on either cheek, the eyes fixed and staring, the lips wine-red.

It might have been a face taken from one of those groups of crudely painted wood or terra-cotta, in which northern Italy--as at Orta or Varallo--has expressed the scenes of the Passion.