The New Magdalen - Page 111/209

She closed the library door, while Lady Janet opened the other door

which led into the hall.

As she turned and looked back into the dining-room a cry of astonishment

escaped her.

There--as if in answer to the aspiration which was still in her mind;

there, established in triumph on the chair that she had just left--sat

Grace Roseberry, in sinister silence, waiting for her.