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have to tell you, then, that Miss Verinder proposes going to stay with her aunt, Mrs. Ablewhite, of Frizinghall. She has arranged to leave us the first thing to-morrow morning.'
Sergeant Cuff looked at me. I made a step forward to speak to my mistress--and, feeling my heart fail me (if I must own it), took a step back again, and said nothing.
`May I ask your ladyship when Miss Verinder informed you that she was going to her aunt's?' inquired the Sergeant.
`About an hour since,' answered my mistress.
Sergeant Cuff looked at me once more. They say old people's hearts are not very easily moved. My heart couldn't have thumped much harder than it did now, if I had been five-and-twenty again!
`I have no claim, my lady,' says the Sergeant, `to control Miss Verinder's actions. All I can ask you to do is to put off her departure, if possible, till later in the day. I must go to Frizinghall myself to-morrow morning -- and I shall be back by two o'clock, if not before. If Miss Verinder can be kept here till that time, I should wish to say two words to her -- unexpectedly -- before she goes.'
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