Here he found Harry waiting for him, looking tolerably well, and tolerably happy. This was a great relief to Hugh, for he had not seen him at the breakfast-table—Harry having risen early and breakfasted before; and he had felt very uneasy lest the boy should have missed him in the night (for they were still bed-fellows), and should in consequence have had one of his dreadful attacks of fear.—It was evident that this had not taken place.
CHAPTER XXVI. AN ACCIDENT.
There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
Hamlet.
When Mrs. Elton left the breakfast table, she went straight to Miss Cameron’s room to inquire after her, expecting to find her maid with her. But when she knocked at the door, there was no reply.
She went therefore to her own room, and sent her maid to find Euphra’s maid.
She came.
“Is your mistress going to get up to-day, Jane?” asked Mrs. Elton.
“I don’t know, ma’am. She has not rung yet.”