when whitney had arrived eight days ago and asked if she could stay here until clayton had time to think things through and come for her , alicia westmorland had considered urging her to return at once to her rightful place beside her husband , insisting upon it , in fact and yet , there was something about whitney 's hurt , determined look that had reminded the dowager duchess of herself , many years before-of clayton 's father striding across her parents ' drawing room , where he had found his wife after an absence of four days : `` get into that carriage immediately , '' he had ordered her .