I saw that she was not fit for talking yet, and begged her to go upstairs to the drawing-room and lie down a little.

She looked apprehensively toward the folding-doors that shut us off from the front parlor.
"Leave Mrs.Baggs to me," I said.

"I want to have a few words with her; and, as soon as you are gone, I'll make noise enough here to wake her." Alicia looked at me inquiringly and amazedly.

I did not speak again.
Time was now of terrible importance to us--I gently led her to the door..