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 passed to the outer room, to summon Hilson.

Juliet, confounded, remained alone. She looked from one side to the other; expecting either that Mrs. Howel would call upon her, or that Mrs. Rawlins would return for further orders. Neither of them re-appeared, or spoke.

Alarmed, now, yet more powerfully than disgusted, she compelled herself to tap at the door of Mrs. Howel, and to beg admission.

She received no answer. A second and a third attempt failed equally. Affrighted more seriously, she hastened to the outer room; where a man, Hilson, she supposed, was just quitting Mrs. Rawlins.

"Mrs. Rawlins," she cried; "I beseech you not to send any one off, till you have received fresh directions."

Mrs. Rawlins desired to know whether this were the command of her lady.

"It will be," Juliet replied, "when I have spoken to her again."