This announcement was on her lips, and she had quite composed the pale hard face she would offer him: "I can't stop--I must go home.

If I feel better, later on, I'll come back.

I'm very sorry, but I _must_ go." At that instant Captain Everard once more stood there, producing in her agitated spirit, by his real presence, the strangest, quickest revolution.

He stopped her off without knowing it, and by the time he had been a minute in the shop she felt herself saved.
That was from the first minute how she thought of it.

There were again other persons with whom she was occupied, and again the situation could only be expressed by their silence.