She certainly needed something to still the agitation in her breast.
It seemed to her impossible that she had got away so easily and she knew that she would not feel really safe until the train had actually left the Station.
When she had gone back to the house yesterday morning with James, she had run upstairs to her bedroom and found, as she had hoped, the note she had put outside her door with Do not Disturb on it was still there.
This meant that she had not been called and no one except for James would realise that she had left the house.
She then undressed quickly, climbed into bed and rang the bell.
“I wondered what made you sleep so late, miss,” the maid had said who came to draw the curtains.
“I awoke with a headache, Mary,” Susanna replied, “and thought it best to sleep it of
