Loath though she might be to depart, there was no reason she could urge for lingering.
"Is not your lordship coming ?" said she.
"Of course he is," her ladyship commanded.

"I need to speak with you yet concerning Rotherby," she informed him.
"Hem!" His lordship coughed.

Plainly he was not at his ease.

"I will follow soon.

Do not stay for me.