Mrs.Errol was already on her way to the door.

It was plain that here was a responsibility she was unprepared to shoulder.

But Anne called her back.
"No, please!" she said, a slight flush on her face.

"Don't call him in again! Really, it is of no consequence." But in spite of this assertion her uneasiness regarding her husband grew rapidly from that moment--an uneasiness that she was powerless to control or hide.

Could it be--was it possible ?--that he meant to leave her thus abandoned to the pitying kindness of strangers?
She could hardly believe it.