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A faint shudder ran through her from head to foot her eyelids trembled half opened for a moment and closed again. As they closed, a low sigh fluttered feebly from her lips. Hester Dethridge put her back in Blanche's arms considered a little with herself returned to writing on her slate and held out the written words once more: "Shivered when I touched her.
After waiting a little, and hearing nothing, she threw herself on the sofa in her room. If any thing happened, a knock at the door would rouse her instantly. In the mean while Hester Dethridge opened Geoffrey's bedroom door and went in. The movements and the mutterings which Anne had heard, had been movements and mutterings in his sleep.
In consideration of this last merit, the late Sir Thomas had decided on giving her a trial, and had discovered that he had never dined in his life as he dined when Hester Dethridge was at the head of his kitchen. She remained after his death in his widow's service. Lady Lundie was far from liking her.
The window in which they expected to see it was the window of the room in which the fire had broken out the room which Hester Dethridge had locked up for the night. It was equally hopeless to wait until the policeman passed on his beat, and to call for help.
He was in search of something to divert his mind and here it was found. "Any thing will do for me," he thought. "Suppose I 'chaff' her a little about her slate?" He called to the woman across the pear-trees. "Hullo!" The woman raised herself, and advanced toward him slowly looking at him, as she came on, with the sunken eyes, the sorrow-stricken face, the stony tranquillity of Hester Dethridge.
She stood speechless, looking at him. After one glance at her, when she came in, Hester Dethridge looked at him, too and from that moment never looked away again, as long as Anne remained in the room. He broke the silence in a voice that was not like his own; with a furtive restraint in his manner which she had never noticed in it before.
The family agreed in considering this unhappy person as undeserving of notice or benefit. Her name was Hester Dethridge. It proved to be a great aggravation of Hester's offenses, in the eyes of Hester's relatives, when it was discovered that she possessed a life-interest in Salt Patch, and an income of two hundred a year.
Dethridge, I request you to give me a chance. I won't force your inclinations. We are married what's the use of regretting it? Stay here, as you said yesterday, on your own terms. I wish to make it up. In the presence of Mrs. Dethridge, I say I wish to make it up. I won't detain you. I request you to think of it. Good-morning."
"If Hester Dethridge leaves the kitchen-maid to cook the dinner, Roberts, Hester Dethridge leaves my service to-day. I want no more words about it. If she persists in setting my orders at defiance, let her bring her account-book into the library, while we are at lunch, and lay it out my desk. I shall be back in the library after luncheon and if I see the account-book I shall know what it means.
I believe, Sir Patrick, but for the two men, who ran up and laid hold of him, that Hester Dethridge would have seen what she expected to see. The change in him was so frightful even to me, well as I thought I knew him in his fits of passion I tremble when I think of it. One of the men who had restrained him was almost as brutal, in his way.
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