It is true she looked pale and heavy-eyed, but that was the only sign she gave of her past trouble, which yet must be a present care, thought Molly.
After dinner, Mr Gibson went out to his town patients; Mrs Gibson subsided into her arm-chair, holding a sheet of The Times before her, behind which she took a quiet and lady-like doze.Cynthia had a book in one hand, with the other she shaded her eyes from the light.Molly alone could neither read, nor sleep, nor work.She sate in the seat in the bow-window; the blind was not drawn down, for there was no danger of their being overlooked.