They did not order me, but I thought I would come to you.

I did not know it was forbidden." "What was the book ?" inquired Jane severely.

"I will take it to her ladyship." But Ameerah was so frightened that she had forgotten the name, and when Jane knocked at the door of Mrs.Osborn's boudoir, it was empty, both the ladies having gone into the garden.
But Ameerah's story was quite true, Lady Walderhurst said in the evening when Jane spoke of the matter as she dressed her for dinner.

They had been speaking of a book containing records of certain historical Walderhursts.

It was one Emily had taken from the library to read in her bedroom.
"We did not ask her to go for it.