I must force the Professor to have a speedy marriage.

I must! I must!" and she began to pace the tiny room in a frenzy of terror and well-founded alarm.
As she was trying to calm herself and succeeding very badly, Jane entered the room with a card.

It proved to be that of Sir Frank Random.
"It is rather a late hour for a visit," said Mrs.Jasher to the servant.
"However, I feel so bored, that perhaps he will cheer me up.

Ask him to come in." When Jane left, she stood still for a moment or so, trying to think why the young man had called at so untoward an hour.

But when his footsteps were heard approaching the door, she swept the books and the bills and the letters into the desk and locked it quickly.