Then, as she was alone in the quiet of what was at the moment an empty house, she began to pray.
She prayed for God to help her and for her mother to be near her and she also prayed that where she was going would not be as difficult or as frightening as Betty feared it would be.
The sun was coming through the top of the door and lighting the stairs when Eleta’s wristwatch told her that it was now six o’clock.
It was then that she turned the key in the lock and opened the door. Even as she did so, she saw a carriage approaching drawn by two horses.
When they were pulled in exactly outside the door, she opened it still further.
There was a footman on the box beside the driver and, as he came across the pavement, she saw that he was a comparatively young man with a smile on his lips.
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