“Let him come up.”
“Here? Immediately?”
“Didst thou hear me? Let Mr. Falsgrave come up.”
As if suddenly and admonishingly made aware, by Dates, of the ungovernable mood of Mrs. Glendinning, the clergyman entered the open door of her chamber with a most deprecating but honest reluctance, and apprehensiveness of he knew not what.
“Be seated, sir; stay, shut the door and lock it.”
“I will do it. Be seated. Hast thou seen him?”
“Whom, Madam?—Master Pierre?”
“Him!—quick!”
“It was to speak of him I came, Madam. He made a most extraordinary call upon me last night—midnight.”