This was not lost on the speaker.
'Your pretty daughter,' she said, 'starts to think of such things.

Yet,' looking full upon her, 'you may be sure that there are men and women already on their road, who have their business to do with YOU, and who will do it.

Of a certainty they will do it.

They may be coming hundreds, thousands, of miles over the sea there; they may be close at hand now; they may be coming, for anything you know or anything you can do to prevent it, from the vilest sweepings of this very town.' With the coldest of farewells, and with a certain worn expression on her beauty that gave it, though scarcely yet in its prime, a wasted look, she left the room.
Now, there were many stairs and passages that she had to traverse in passing from that part of the spacious house to the chamber she had secured for her own occupation.

When she had almost completed the journey, and was passing along the gallery in which her room was, she heard an angry sound of muttering and sobbing.