This said, she left it to her young lady to decide for herself, whether she would return to Windygates, under present circumstances, or not.
Blanche took the box from the woman's hands, and joined Anne in the bedroom, to dress herself for the drive home.
"I am going back to a good scolding," she said.

"But a scolding is no novelty in my experience of Lady Lundie.

I'm not uneasy about that, Anne--I'm uneasy about you.

Can I be sure of one thing--do you stay here for the present ?" The worst that could happen at the inn _had_ happened.

Nothing was to be gained now--and every thing might be lost--by leaving the place at which Geoffrey had promised to write to her.