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`` No , ma'am ; he said nothing at all about coming home , '' she answered . Hilda noticed her hesitation , but did not wish to question her further . After the servant left the room , however , she began for the first time to feel both impatient and uneasy with regard to her little sister . `` If Judy is not here by six o'clock , '' she said to herself , `` I will go to Lincoln 's Inn Fields in search of her . How extraordinarily impatient she was to go out this morning ; and how very odd of her to insist on going to Mr. Rivers ' , and to say nothing at all to me about it ; and then how queer -- how more than queer -- her not having yet returned . My sweet little Judy , the most thoughtful child who ever breathed -- it is unlike her to cause me anxiety of this sort . '' Hilda did not care for the social little meal which was generally so lively when Judy was present .