They are at the rectory.

I am going, mother." "Stop a moment, Steve.

This is now my affair." Stephen looked at his mother with amazement.

Her countenance, her voice, her whole manner, had suddenly changed.

An expression of angry purpose was in her wide-open eyes and firm mouth, as she asked, "Can you or Jamie, or any of the men, drive me to Kendal ?" "To-day ?" "I want to leave within an hour." "The rain down-pours; and it is like to be worse yet, if the wind does not change." "If it were ten times worse, I must to Kendal.