She rose, asking no questions and professing no surprise.
"Very well, sir," she said, in the tone of a determined person who is informed that the dentist is come to extract that large double tooth of his, from which he has suffered such a purgatory this month past. She left her sewing and her thimble in the window-seat, and followed her uncle where he led.
Shut into the drawing-room, the pair took seats, each in an arm-chair, placed opposite, a few yards between them.

She rose, showing no surprise, and followed her uncle into the drawing room like a person about to undergo an extraction at the dentist.
