Then she hurried Mary up the back stairs to her room, and went with a beating heart to find Mr.Hope and her sister.
Mrs.Gilbert, though a simple and unguarded woman, could read faces like the rest, and she saw at once that her sister was very much put out by this visit of Mr.Hope, and wanted to know what had passed between her and him.

This set the poor woman all in a flutter for fear she should have said something injudicious, and there-upon she prepared to find out, if possible, what she ought to have said.
"What! Mr.Hope!" said Mrs.Easton.

"Well, Mary will be glad.

And have you been long home, sir ?" "Came last night," said Hope.

"She hasn't been well, I hear.