But when Mrs.John Scott rang her bell that morning, my lady, I took up the paper with her cup of tea, which she always took in bed.

And oh, my lady, when she came to know what had happened at Lone, she went off into the very worst hysterics I ever saw.

I was struck all of a heap! I couldn't imagine why she should take it so awfully to heart as that.

But that's neither here nor there.

I know _now_ why she took it so to heart.