Category: Novels
So spoke Mrs. Bonnington, the Vicar’s wife, laying down the law; a law indeed, which most English women are ready to take for granted. Mrs. Rose, a tall, thin, pale lady who had “nerves,” and who, on this bright April morning, wore a woollen shawl half off her shoulders as she...
So spoke Mrs. Bonnington, the Vicar’s wife, laying down the law; a law indeed, which most English women are ready to take for granted. Mrs. Rose, a tall, thin, pale lady who had...
2. CHAPTER II.Mabin looked at Mrs. Bonnington’s retreating figure, half regretfully and half resentfully. The regret was for her own incivility; the resentment was for the want of tact which...
3. CHAPTER III.Mabin’s sprained ankle was a more serious affair than she had supposed. For a month she never left the house, and for another she went out in a wheel-chair, or hopped about on a...
4. CHAPTER IV.While Mabin was still talking to Rudolph in the road between “The Towers” and “Stone House,” a tall parlormaid, in snow-white French cap and ends, passed them, on her way from t...
5. CHAPTER V.Mrs. Rose was not a woman of acute perceptions, but even she was vaguely conscious that there was something not quite satisfactory about the account Mrs. Haybrow had given of he...
6. CHAPTER VI.There was silence in the room for a few minutes after the abrupt dismissal of Mabin. Mrs. Dale made a perfunctory gesture of invitation to her unwelcome visitor to be seated, an...
7. CHAPTER VII.Perhaps Rudolph had his suspicions, for he expressed no surprise. Before he could answer her they heard the crackling and rustling again, but at a little distance. The intruder...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Mabin was taken so thoroughly by surprise, on seeing the wild self-abandonment of her unhappy companion, that for a few minutes she stood staring at the crouching figure on the...
9. CHAPTER IX.In the ordinary course of things, it would have been natural for Mabin to conclude, on seeing a man’s hand inside her door in the middle of the night, that the intruder was a bu...
10. CHAPTER X.And yet the occasion was an ordinary one enough. It had simply happened that she had taken her work to the old seat at the edge of the plantation, where the primitive picnics us...
11. CHAPTER XI.Mabin had only just time to recognize the face of the man who had got into “The Towers” at night as Mr. Banks, her father’s tenant, when he turned abruptly and hurried away towa...
12. CHAPTER XII.Were the complications of this mysterious history never to end. The little lady had shown terror at the mere sight of this man’s portrait; she had abandoned a room in which she...
13. CHAPTER XIII.“There is no necessity for your doing so,” retorted the other with indifference. “As it is a very unpleasant thing to believe, indeed, I think you are wise to discredit it. And...
14. CHAPTER XIV.It was with a throbbing brain and a heavy heart that Mabin, dismissed by Mrs. Dale with a warm pressure of the hand and a little pathetic smile, went through the hall and out of...
15. CHAPTER XV.Mabin trudged along the chalky, dry road in the fast-gathering darkness, oppressed by fears. What if Rudolph should not be in time. Now it seemed clear to the girl that poor Mrs...