My mother had left her chair in her agitation, and gone behind it in the corner. Miss Betsey, looking round the room, slowly and inquiringly, began on the other side, and carried her eyes on, like a Saracen’s Head in a Dutch clock, until they reached my mother. Then she made a frown and a gesture to my mother, like one who was accustomed to be obeyed, to come and open the door. My mother went.
“ Mrs. David Copperfield, I think ,” said Miss Betsey; the emphasis referring, perhaps, to my mother’s mourning weeds, and her condition.
“Yes,” said my mother, faintly.
“Miss Trotwood,” said the visitor. “You have heard of her, I dare say?”
My mother answered she had had that pleasure. And she had a disagreeable consciousness of not appearing to imply that it had been an overpowering pleasure.
“Now you see her,” said Miss Betsey. My mother bent her head, and