Linley stepped forward, in the fear that she might fall.

She instantly controlled herself, and signed to him to keep back.
"Don't touch me!" she said.

"You come from Miss Westerfield!" That reproach roused him.
"I own that I come from Miss Westerfield," he answered.

"She addresses a request to you through me." "I refuse to grant it." "Hear it first." "No!" "Hear it--in your own interest.

She asks permission to leave the house, never to return again.