If we can't find out what it is, it would be very uncomfortable.

And with father being so delicate too, and often awake at night!' "Mary did not reply, but my words were not without effect.

We ran round the gardens as she had proposed--they were lovely even then--took a cordial farewell of Mrs.Atkins, and set off on our return drive to East Hornham.

I must not forget to tell you that we well examined that part of the garden into which the tapestry room passage led, but there were no traces of footsteps, the explanation of which we afterwards found to be that the snow had continued to fall till much later in the night than the time of our fright.
"Mr.Turner was waiting for us in considerable anxiety.

We had done, he assured us, the most sensible thing possible in the circumstances.