Mrs.Linley removed the hat and cloak, and laid them on a chair.
"There is one other precaution which we must observe," she said; "I must ask you to wait in my room until I find that you may show yourself safely.

Now come with me." Mrs.Presty followed them, and begged earnestly for leave to wait the result of the momentous experiment, at the door of Kitty's bedroom.

Her self-asserting manner had vanished; she was quiet, she was even humble.
While the last chance for the child's life was fast becoming a matter of minutes only, the grandmother's better nature showed itself on the surface.

Randal opened the door for them as the three went out together.
He was in that state of maddening anxiety about his poor little niece in which men of his imaginative temperament become morbid, and say strangely inappropriate things.

In the same breath with which he implored his sister-in-law to let him hear what had happened, without an instant of delay, he startled Mrs.Presty by one of his familiar remarks on the inconsistencies in her character.