CHAPTER XXI.

SHEWING HOW COLONEL OSBORNE WENT TO NUNCOMBE PUTNEY.

Colonel Osborne was expected at Nuncombe Putney on the Friday, and it was Thursday evening before either Mrs. Stanbury or Priscilla was told of his coming. Emily had argued the matter with Nora, declaring that she would make the communication herself, and that she would make it when she pleased and how she pleased. "If Mrs. Stanbury thinks," said she, "that I am going to be treated as a prisoner, or that I will not judge myself as to whom I may see, or whom I may not see, she is very much mistaken." Nora felt that were she to give information to those ladies in opposition to her sister's wishes, she would express suspicion on her own part by doing so; and she was silent. On that same Thursday Priscilla had written her last defiant letter to her aunt,--that letter in which she had cautioned her aunt to make no further accusations without being sure of her facts. To Priscilla's imagination that coming of Lucifer in person, of which Mrs. Trevelyan had spoken, would hardly have been worse than the coming of Colonel Osborne. When, therefore, Mrs. Trevelyan declared the fact on the Thursday evening, vainly endeavouring to speak of the threatened visit in an ordinary voice, and as of an ordinary circumstance, it was as though a thunderbolt had fallen upon them.

"Colonel Osborne coming here!" said Priscilla, mindful of the Stanbury correspondence,--mindful of the evil tongues of the world.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. Who was told of the colonel's coming?
2. What day were they told?
3. Who was coming?
4. Did anything else happen that Thursday?
5. What else happened?
6. Was it a friendly letter?
7. Were the women excited for the visitor?
8. What was his arrival likened to?
9. Were there any other conflicts of interest?
10. what?
11. Where does this excerpt take place?
12. Is Mrs. Trevelyan in hysterics?
1. Mrs. Stanbury and Priscilla
2. Thursday
3. Colonel Osborne
4. yes
5. Priscilla wrote her aunt
6. no
7. no
8. The coming of Lucifer
9. yes
10. Emily argued with Nora
11. Nuncombe Putney
12. no