As to lying down, that she knew to be quite out of the question.

She had already found out that the life which she had adopted was one of incessant work.

But she was neither weak nor idle.

She was quite prepared to work,--if only she might work after her own fashion and with companions chosen by herself.

Had not her husband been so perverse, she would have travelled down with Mrs.
Finn, whose coming was now postponed for two days, and Locock would have been with her.