'Are you going to call on Miss Agnes too?' he asked.
It was Henry Westwick. Mrs. Ferrari clasped her hands in gratitude
as she recognised him.
'Go in, sir!' she cried. 'Go in, directly. That dreadful woman
is with Miss Agnes. Go and protect her!'
'What woman?' Henry asked.
The answer literally struck him speechless. With amazement
and indignation in his face, he looked at Mrs. Ferrari as she
pronounced the hated name of 'Lady Montbarry.' 'I'll see to it,'
was all he said. He knocked at the house-door; and he too, in his turn,
was let in.
CHAPTER XI
'Lady Montbarry, Miss.'
Agnes was writing a letter, when the servant astonished
her by announcing the visitor's name. Her first impulse was
to refuse to see the woman who had intruded on her. But Lady
Montbarry had taken care to follow close on the servant's heels.
Before Agnes could speak, she had entered the room.
'I beg to apologise for my intrusion, Miss Lockwood.
I have a question to ask you, in which I am very much interested.
No one can answer me but yourself.' In low hesitating tones,
with her glittering black eyes bent modestly on the ground,
Lady Montbarry opened the interview in those words.
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