‘Calm yourself, sit doer,“ tor was saying.

    ‘S  out? And come back so quickly?“ er tried to make sense of it.

    ‘S t time.“ o er’s eyes, stirred by ion. ”It must ed, maintaining orly decorum.

    ‘But—“ er s hes. Adeline’s hair.“

    er turned to look at Adeline again.  to t ter es before but a neat navy one, and  loose but braided.

    ter turned back to tor .  steady. tional explanation for ific. And er kneotally and profoundly scientific. tion. “I must be mad,” sed and rils quivered. “I !”

    ears.

    It produced a strange sensation in tor to see or reduced to sucate of dision. And alt ist in   admired er for  inctive, t responded to egration by putting e embrace.

    er did not resist.

    Listening at doors is not bad manners or’s ist o studying  so startled tor and er came as no surprise at all to Mrs. Maudsley,  for some time.

    Sraged rig into the surgery.

    ‘I o leave tantly,“ so er. ”You can send Johe child.“

    to o you later.”

    t hings.

    Jocor nor  t learned from t ts of the morning.

    At  Adeline in  the door ajar.

    Emmeline, urned directly to up teps at a time and strode unatingly to the door behind her.

    And er? No one sao t tle room empty and er gone.

    I emerged from tory and into Miss inter’s glazed and mirrored library.

    ‘here did she go?“ I wondered.

    Miss inter eyed me  fro matter?”

    ‘S have gone somewhere.“

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