The Girl from Nowhere by Baillie Reynolds

She was 'ware of a shadow that crossed where she lay, / She was 'ware of a presence that withered the day. / _The Lay of the Brown Rosary._

Miss Rawson had frequently before been left, while Denzil was away, in sole charge at Normansgrave. She was a woman of courage, and it had never occurred to her before to be nervous in the absence of the master of the house. But now she was nervous, and for a reason which she could not define.