Adah retained just sense enough to do this, and separating the letter from the others, thrust it into her pocket, and then took her way back to Terrace Hill.
Willie was asleep; and as Pamelia, who brought him up, had thoughtfully undressed and placed him in bed, there was nothing for Adah to do but think.

She should go away, of course; she could not stay there longer; but how should she tell them why she went, and who would be her medium for communication?
"Anna, of course," she whispered; and lighting her little lamp, she sat down to write the letter which would tell Anna Richards who was the waiting maid to whom she had been so kind.
"Dear Anna," she wrote.

"Forgive me for calling you so this once, for indeed I cannot help it.

You have been so kind to me that if my heart could ache, it would ache terribly at leaving you and knowing it was forever.

I am going away from you, Anna; and when, in the morning, you wait for me to come as usual, I shall not be here, I could not stay and meet your brother when he returns.