'Is my mother ill, Evans?' she exclaimed.
'O! no, Miss Adeline, quite well,' replied the girl, sighing.
'But why are you so much dressed?' demanded Adeline.
'I have been out,' answered the maid.
'Not on unpleasant business?'
'That's as it may be,' she cried, turning away; and Adeline, from delicacy, forebore to press her further.
''Tis very late—is it not?' asked Adeline, 'and time for me to rise!'
'Yes, miss—I believe you had better get up.'
Adeline immediately rose.—'Give me the dark gown I wore yesterday,' said she.
'I think, miss, you had better put on your new white one,' returned the maid.