But she would take the precaution of having her aunt present; at any rate, till she should have seen how the land lay.

Her being just waked from sleep would be an excuse for asking her aunt to see the visitor till she came down.

So she said to the maid: 'I have been asleep.

I must have got tired walking in the wood in the heat.

Ask Auntie to kindly see Mr.Everard in the blue drawing-room till I come down.