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A little before seven she rose, and changed her dinner dress for a plain

traveling one, and, putting on her hat and jacket, went down to the

library slowly and al the

hall, and she looked up at Nell, clad in her outdoor things, with some

surprise

"I expect Sir Archie Walbrooke at seven o'clock," said Nell "I am in

the library, please"

She spoke quite callove in a leisurely

fashion as she passed on her way; and theat Wolfer House were always so the door, turned up the

electric light a little--for the maids had not yet been to the roo was a wet and chilly one,

and Nell shuddered slightly as she sat and watched the second hand of

the clock, which at one moment seemed to move slowly and at the next

appeared to fly She had not decided upon the words she would use; she

would be guided by those which Sir Archieas possible, to hide every tre and suspense, quivered through her

Then she heard his voice, his slow step--no quicker than usual this