"I want nobody in my room"-- that was her sullen cry--"nobody in my room." The evening advanced, and brought with it no change for the better.

Lady Janet, by the advice of Horace, sent for her own medical adviser.
The doctor shook his head.

The symptoms, he said, indicated a serious shock to the nervous system.

He wrote a sedative prescription; and he gave (with a happy choice of language) some sound and safe advice.

It amounted briefly to this: "Take her away, and try the sea-side." Lady Janet's customary energy acted on the advice, without a moment's needless delay.