"What is it? Tell me, has it anything to do with the library?
"Yes."
"Well; the library's going to be sold."
"I know. That's what I want to speak to her about."
"There's not a bit of good in speaking to her. There are at this moment," said Kitty incisively, "two persons in the house who call themselves the men in possession."
"The brutes—"
"You may as well sit down. You can't turn them out, they're two to one, and their position is, I believe, legally sound."
"I must go to her at once—I knew this would happen—Miss Palliser, is any one with her?"
"I am with her. I'm going back to her in a minute; but I want to talk to you first. Everybody's looking at us, but that can't be helped. Did you say you knew this would happen?"
"Yes—Miss Palliser, I'm in the most intolerable position with regard to Miss Harden."