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Madge felt bound to say so as the sunburnt face looked kind

and motherly

'I suppose you live at Great Oakhurst?'

'Yes I do: my husband, God bless him! he was a kind of foreman at

The Towers, and when he died I was left alone and didn't knohat to

be at, as both eneral shop at Great Oakhurst, as Longwood used to have, but it

don't pay for I ain't used to it, and the house is too big for me,

and there isn't nobody proper to '

'Are you going to leave?'

'Well, I don't quite know yet, hter in London She's ings, too Maybe you know that part?'

'No, I do not' 'You don't live in London, then?'

'Yes, I do I ca'

'The Lord have h! I suppose, then, you're

a-visitin' here I knowback this afternoon'

Her interrogator was puzzled and her curiosity stie's face

'Ah! my poor dear, you'll excuse me, I don't mean to be forward, but

I see you've been a-cryin': there's somebody buried here'

'No' That was all she could say The walk from Letherhead, and the

excitement had been too much for her and she fainted Mrs Caffyn,