[FOR THE SECOND TIME.]
Lucy turned to me as soon as it was quite clear that the fellow had gone.
"Now get up and dress, and go at once to some great lawyer and tell him everything. To whom shall you go?"
"My dear! At this time of day? By the time that I reach town they'll have all gone home."
Lucy looked at me in that freezing fashion which has always struck me as being so singularly unsympathetic.
"What do you propose to do?"
"Well, my dear, I think I'll get up and dress, if you don't mind, and have a little dinner."
"Dinner?"
"Yes, dinner. It's easy enough for you to sneer, but if you'd been living on toast and water, which, to some extent, during the last four days, I practically have been doing, the prospect of a little decent food would even appeal to you."
She shrugged her shoulders.