I will lose not a minute.

Bid the girl be ready, and we will forth at once.

We will take boat at Baynard's Castle, and be back again ere two hours have passed!" Janet was delighted with the plan.

She was restless and nervous here, and anxiously eager to know what had befallen her own people.
She would gladly have had Dinah to go also, but saw that the sick lady could not be left, and that it would not be right to move her save on urgent necessity; but to go and get a band of eager helpers to come to the rescue if need be satisfied her entirely, and she said a joyful farewell to her aunt, promising to send help right speedily.
Left alone with her patient, Dinah commenced her task of feeding the lamp of life, and seeking by every means in her power to prepare the patient for the possible transit.

Once she was called from the room by some commotion without, and found the frightened servants all huddled together outside the door, uncertain whether to fly the place altogether or to wait till some one came with definite news as to the magnitude of the peril.