What more is there you can do ?" "Oh, madam--nay, madam! I am most deeply grieved that my--my--" "His lordship will wait upon you to the door," said she, designating her son.
The eminent physician effaced himself from her ladyship's attention.

It was his boast that he could take a hint when one was given him; and so he could, provided it were broad enough, as in the present instance.
He gathered up his hat and gold-headed cane--the unfailing insignia of his order--and was gone, swiftly and silently.
Rotherby closed the door after him, and returned slowly, head bowed, to the window where his mother was still seated.

They looked at each other gravely for a long moment.
"This makes matters easier for you," she said at length.
"Much easier.

It does not matter now how far his complicity may be betrayed by his papers.

I am glad, madam, to see you so far recovered from your weakness." She shivered, as much perhaps at his tone as at the recollections he evoked.