Mrs. Bray remained silent for a considerable time, then, as if satisfied, arose, saying,
“You will hear from me by to-morrow or the day after, at farthest. Good-morning.”
As she was moving toward the door Mr. Dinneford said,
“Let me have your name and residence, madam.”
The woman quickened her steps, partly turning her head as she did so, and said, with a sinister curl of the lip,
“No, I thank you, sir.”
In the next moment she was gone.
CHAPTER XXV.
NOTHING of all this was communicated to Edith. After a few weeks of prostration strength came slowly back to mind and body, and with returning strength her interest in her old work revived. Her feet went down again into lowly ways, and her hands took hold of suffering.