When the suit case was in process of preparation, Judith invaded Mrs.
Trench’s bedroom. She brought a dark negligée for the Pullman, in place
of the delicate one that Sylvia had ridiculed, two years ago. As she
offered it, her mother-in-law turned furtively to conceal something she
was in the act of securing in the bottom of her small travelling bag.
Her fingers caught at the edge of a night-dress, awkwardly, and the
thing was revealed ... the borrowed volume of Browning.