Ere they had been a quarter of an hour together, arrived a cab,
which discharged an elderly person with her bandbox and bundles; I had no
difficulty in recognising a professional nurse in the new-comer. She too
disappeared into the sick-room, and left me sitting in the neighbouring
chamber, the scene of the last night's quarrel.
Hither presently came to me Maria, the maid. She said she had not the
heart to go away now she was wanted; that they had passed a sad night,
and that no one had been to bed. Master Tommy was below, and the landlady
taking care of him: the landlord had gone out for the nurse. Mrs. Clive
had been taken bad after Mr. Clive went away the night before. Mrs.
Mackenzie had gone to the poor young thing, and there she went on,
crying, and screaming, and stamping, as she used to do in her tantrums,
which was most cruel of her, and made Mrs. Clive so ill. And presently
the young lady began: my informant told me. She came screaming into the
sitting-room, her hair over her shoulders, calling out she was deserted,
deserted, and would like to die.
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