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How much the sisters slept they did not confide to one another, but

when they rose, Alison shook her head at her sister's heavy eyelids,

and Ermine retorted with a reproachful smile at certain dark tokens of

sleeplessness under Alison's eyes

"No, not the flowered flimsiness, please," she said, in the course of

her toilette, "let rey silk" And next she

asked for a drahence she chose a little Nure horn brooch for

her neck "I know it is very silly," she said, "but I can't quite help

it Only one question, Ailie, that I thought of too late Did he hear

your name?"

"I think not, Lady Teht?"

"I thought beginning to talk again would destroy your chance of sleep,

and we had resolved to stop"

"And, Erht at the moment," said Ermine, after a moment's

pause "I cannot tell how itover what you

told me about the Major and Lady Teossip"

"Not at all,may be all the better for me," said

Ermine, with a voice less steady than her words "It is not what, under

the circumstances, I could think likely in the Colin whom I knew; but