Retribution, terrible and crushing, was at hand, hurrying on in the carriage bringing Anna Richards to Spring Bank, and on the fleet-footed steed bearing the convict swiftly up the Frankfort pike.
'Lina could not tell what ailed her.

Her _hauteur_ of manner was all gone, and Mug, who had come into the room to see "the finery," was not chidden or told to let them alone, while Densie, who, at Alice's suggestion, brought her a glass of wine, was kindly thanked, and even asked to stay if she liked while the dressing went on.

But Densie did not care to, and she left the room just as the mud-bespattered vehicle containing Anna Richards drove up, Mr.Millbrook having purposely stopped in Versailles, thinking it better that Anna should go on alone.
It was Ellen of course, 'Lina said, and so the dressing continued, and she was all unsuspicious of the scene enacting below, in the room where Anna met her brother alone.

She had not given Hugh her name.

She simply asked for Dr.Richards, and conducting her into the parlor, hung with bridal decorations, Hugh went for the doctor, amusing himself on the back piazza with the sprightly Mug, who when asked if she were not sorry Miss 'Lina was going off, had naively answered: "No-o--sir, 'case she done jaw so much, and pull my har.