During this explanation, Doctor Spencer kept his eye fixed on Mrs. Calverley in a manner she did not like.
“This is not a feverish cold, as I thought,” he observed. “But I shall be better able to judge when I see her.”
“Emmeline Barfleur and their maid occupy the same room with her, so she has had plenty of attendance. I should have gone to her if she had been alone.”
At this moment a tap was heard at the door, and Emmeline came in.
She looked very much frightened, and said, hastily:
“Pray come and see Miss Calverley at once, Doctor Spencer! She has just fainted!”
Doctor Spencer instantly prepared to obey.
“Take these restoratives with you,” said Mrs. Calverley, giving him several small bottles; “and come back to me when you have seen her.”
“I will,” replied the doctor, as he followed Emmeline.
Some little time elapsed before Doctor Spencer appeared again.