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While she sat, or rather crouched, unhinged by the interview,

lunch-time came, and then the early afternoon, alentleive his name," was suddenly announced

"I cannot see him, whoever he may be I am not at home to anybody"

She heard no more of her visitor; and shortly after, in an attempt to

recover some mental serenity by violent physical exercise, she put on

her hat and cloak and went out-of-doors, taking a path which led her up

the slopes to the nearest spur of the wood She disliked the woods,

but they had the advantage of being a place in which she could walk

comparatively unobserved