If I cross the threshold it is to see Miss Locke.

I thought it was a whim at first, and I sent Tudor in my stead; but she was so rude to him, and lashed herself into such a fury against us clerics, that he came back looking quite scared, and asked why I had sent him to a mad woman.' 'She was angry with me to-day.' And I told him about the blind.
'That is right, Ursula,' he said encouragingly.

'You have made a good beginning: the singing may do more to soften her strange nature than all our preaching.

You will be a comfort to Miss Locke, at any rate.' And then he stopped, and looked at me rather wistfully, as though he longed to tell me something but could not make up his mind to do it 'You will be a comfort to us all if you go on in this way,' he continued; and then he surprised me by asking if I had not yet seen the ladies from Gladwyn.
The question struck me as rather irrelevant, but I took care not to say so as I answered in the negative.
'You have been here nearly a week; they might have risked a call by this time,' he returned, knitting his brows as though something perplexed him; but I broke in on his reflections rather impatiently.
'I declare, Max, you have quite piqued my curiosity about these people; some mystery seems to attach to Gladwyn.

I shall expect to see something very wonderful.' 'Then you will be disappointed,' he returned quietly, not a bit offended by my petulance.