The name braced Stephen at once.

Here was danger, an enemy to be encountered; all the fighting blood of generations leaped to the occasion.

The short spell of sleep had helped to restore her.

There remained still quite enough of mental and nervous excitement to make her think quickly; the words were hardly out of the maid's mouth before her resolution was taken.

It would never do to let Leonard Everard see she was diffident about meeting him; she would go down at once.