The old butler muttered his thanks, for he felt rather husky, and Mrs. Calverley went up-stairs to her own room.
V. SHOWING WHAT MRS. CALVERLEY'S DRESSING-BOX CONTAINED.
After closing the door, Mrs. Calverley approached the large Psyche that stood opposite her, and ejaculated, “No wonder Laura was struck by my appearance! I do look frightfully pale! I must take care my looks don't betray me.”
But her countenance assumed a deathly hue, and her limbs seemed scarcely able to support her as she moved towards the door communicating with, the dressing-room.
There she stopped, her entrance, apparently, being barred by a shadowy figure resembling her dead husband.
But Teresa, as we have shown, was a woman of high courage, and not to be daunted by superstitious fears.
Convinced that the figure was a mere effect of her imagination, she passed into the inner room, and then, standing still for a moment till she had quite recovered her self-possession, proceeded to unlock a large dressing-box that stood upon the toilet-table, and took from it a small casket apparently containing scent bottles.
When the casket, in its turn, was unlocked by a diminutive and peculiarly-shaped key, four very small phials were disclosed.