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They say that after the ball , where she appeared in all her glory , as if nothing had happened , she made Bob give her a schedule of his debts , packed his portmanteau , sent him off to find some cheap hole abroad , and stayed to pick up the pieces after the wreck . '' `` She is a brave woman , '' said Julius . Therewith they plunged into the abodes of misery , where the only other helper at present was good old Miss Slater , who was going from one to another , trying to show helpless women how to nurse , but able only to contribute infinitesimal grains of aid or comfort at immense cost to herself . Julius insisted on taking home with him his curate , who had been at work from ten o'clock that morning till six , when as Julius resigned the pony 's reins to him , he begged that they might go round and inquire at Sirenwood , to which consent was the more willingly given because poor Frank 's few gleams of consciousness were spent in sending his indefatigable nurse Anne to ask whether his mother had ` had that letter , ' and in his delirium he was always feeling his watch-chain for that unhappy pebble , and moaning when he missed it . Mrs. Poynsett 's letter had gone on Friday , and still there was no answer , and this was a vexation , adding to the fear that the poor fellow 's rejection had been final . Yet she might have missed the letter by being summoned home . Close to the lodge , they overtook Sir Harry , riding dejectedly homewards , and , glad to be saved going up to the house , they stopped and inquired for Lady Tyrrell .