The toothache! And my very life, so it seemed to me, hung in the balance.
I did not hesitate one second.
‘Hurrah!’ I cried. ‘She can go. I am to call for her in the cab.’
And I crushed the note cruelly, and threw it in the fire.
‘Tell him to call at Ryleys’,’ I said to Rebecca as she was putting me and my dress into the cab.
And she told the cabman with that sharp voice of hers, always arrogant towards inferiors, to call at Ryleys.’
I put my head out of the cab window as soon as we were in Oldcastle Street.
‘Drive straight to Hanbridge,’ I ordered.
The thing was done.