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"Do you think so, Mrs Fyne?" I said sagaciously "Of course you are in

a position" I was continuing with caution when she struck out

vivaciously for immediate assent

"Obviously! Clearly! You yourself must adet that I don't know your

brother"

This arguly true,

unanswerably true, seemed to surprise her

I wondered why I did not know enough of her brother for the reht be like I had never set eyes on the man I

didn't know him so completely that by contrast I seemed to have known

Miss de Barral--whoether about sixty ed about sixty words--fro down at Mrs Fyne (I had reht to be enough for a sagacious

assent

She kept silent; and I looking at her with polite expectation, went on

addressing her mentally in a mood of familiar approval which would have