CHAPTER IV. 

WHAT SHALL BE DONE ABOUT IT? 

Rachel was still thinking of Luke Rowan and of the man's arm when she opened the cottage door, but the sight of her sister's face, and the tone of her sister's voice, soon brought her back to a full consciousness of her immediate present position. "Oh, Dolly, do not speak with that terrible voice, as though the world were coming to an end," she said, in answer to the first note of objurgation that was uttered; but the notes that came afterwards were so much more terrible, so much more severe, that Rachel found herself quite unable to stop them by any would-be joking tone. 

Mrs. Prime was desirous that her mother should speak the words of censure that must be spoken. She would have preferred herself to remain silent, knowing that she could be as severe in her silence as in her speech, if only her mother would use the occasion as it should be used. Mrs. Ray had been made to feel how great was the necessity for outspoken severity; but when the moment came, and her dear beautiful child stood there before her, she could not utter the words with which she had been already prompted. "Oh, Rachel," she said, "Dorothea tells me--" and then she stopped. 

"What has Dorothea told you?" asked Rachel. 

"I have told her," said Mrs. Prime, now speaking out, "that I saw you standing alone an hour since with that young man,--in the churchyard. And yet you had said that he was to have been away in Exeter!" 
Whaere had Rachel been seen?
Was anyone with her?
Who?
According to whom?
Who was the young man?
Had he been on her mind?
What about?
How did her voice sound?
Who felt a need to speak out?
Who is Rachel's sister?
Who cared not to speak?
How long ws Rachel with the man?
Were they alone?
Was he meant to be there?
Where did they think he was?
Who told them that?
The churchyard.
that I saw you standing alone an hour since with that young man,--in the churchyard.
Yes
that I saw you standing alone an hour since with that young man,--in the churchyard.
A young man
"that I saw you standing alone an hour since with that young man,--
Dorothea
What has Dorothea told you?" asked Rachel. 

"I have told her," said Mrs. Prime
Luke Rowan
Rachel was still thinking of Luke Rowan and of the man's arm when she opened the cottage door
Yes
Rachel was still thinking of Luke Rowan and of the man's arm when she opened the cottage door,
The man's arm.
Rachel was still thinking of Luke Rowan and of the man's arm when she opened the cottage door, 
As though the world was ending
 as though the world were coming to an end,
Mrs. Ray
 Mrs. Ray had been made to feel how great was the necessity for outspoken severity
Dolly
but the sight of her sister's face, and the tone of her sister's voice, soon brought her back to a full consciousness of her immediate present position. "Oh, Dolly
Her mother.
Mrs. Prime was desirous that her mother should speak the words of censure that must be spoken.
An hour
hat I saw you standing alone an hour since with that young man,-
Yes
that I saw you standing alone an hour since with that young man,--in the churchyard
No
And yet you had said that he was to have been away in Exeter!"
Exeter
And yet you had said that he was to have been away in Exeter!"
Rachel
"I have told her," said Mrs. Prime, now speaking out, "that I saw you standing alone an hour since with that young man,--in the churchyard. And yet you had said that he was to have been away in Exeter!"