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She entered the arched doorway of the porch The whole place

see the church's

architecture, for the purpose of doar authority She saw that one pair of feet had paddled

across the flagstone floor of the porch The place was silent,

deserted, like an e

feet

Ursula went forward to the teachers' rooloomy hole She knocked timidly

"Come in!" called a surprised man's voice, as from a prison

cell She entered the dark little roohted naked and raw At the table a thina paper on a jellytray He looked up

at Ursula with his narrow, sharp face, said "Good ain, and stripped the paper off the tray, glancing

at the violet-coloured writing transferred, before he dropped

the curled sheet aside aht and gloom and

the narrowness of the roo," she said

"Yes," he said, "it's notnor weather really

existed This place was timeless He spoke in an occupied voice,

like an echo Ursula did not knohat to say She took off her

waterproof