In the meanwhile, silence toward their stepmother--silence toward
every one till their father came back!
They waited and waited. One after another the precious hours, pregnant
with the issues of life and death, followed each other on the dial. Lady
Winwood returned alone. She had left her husband at the House of Lords.
Dinner-time came, and brought with it a note from his lordship. There
was a debate at the House. Lady Winwood and his daughters were not to
wait dinner for him.
TENTH SCENE.
Green Anchor Lane.
An hour later than the time at which he had been expected, Richard
Turlington appeared at his office in the city.
He met beforehand all the inquiries which the marked change in him
must otherwise have provoked, by announcing that he was ill. Before he
proceeded to business, he asked if anybody was waiting to see him. One
of the servants from Muswell Hill was waiting with another parcel
for Miss Lavinia, ordered by telegram from the country that morning.
Turlington (after ascertaining the servant's name) received the man in
his private room.
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