"Where, then, can you have been for two hours all alone?"
"I was all the time in the grounds," said Hetty.
She had made up her mind that she would not "tell" this time of Mark, and the consciousness that she was in an awkward position made her colour up and look as if guilty of some fault she did not wish to own. Phyllis looked at her narrowly and glanced at Miss Davis, who had a pained expression on her face, but who said nothing more at the time, being willing to screen Hetty if she could.
"Hetty, I am sure you have got cold," said Nell after some time; "you are all shivery-shuddery."
"My head is aching," said Hetty; "I don't feel well."
"I suppose you were sitting all the time reading a story-book," said Phyllis, "that would give you cold in weather like this."
"No, I was not reading, at least not long," said Hetty.
"But were you sitting?"
"No."
"Walking?"